Hello,

This is a view into my sketchbooks and journals. I have always had sketchbooks but a lot of the works remained sketches and few ever evolved into a finished drawing.  But I changed my mind about this. I had an illustration instructor who said ‘a piece of artwork is never finished’.  It was a statement that I immediately disagreed with but the statement always stuck with me. When I approached my old sketchbooks, I wondered what more can be done with these pages. Why not work on, change, or alter the drawings I had started so many years ago? In short, why not finish these? The answer was to draw and paint further and find out.

The following works started in 1980. Some thirty years later I completed them but who know what will happen in the following years...

The below is detail of a page with many pictures started in 1980. This detail I found funny with the crown and facial expression.Below it is a quick sketch of a horse. I didn't currently alter it much other than scraping over a coat of pearlescent paint over the page with a credit card.  In the early  80's, my father's friend had a sheep dog who I adored and consequently, made it into my sketchbook.  The below's theme (clothing, hat, piano etc) I cannot explain.  Perhaps, I was challenged at having to make the dog's front legs straight while standing and this was a shortcut. But who knows? Recent changes, have been washes and gluing the little sheep dog picture in the right hand corner. 

Animals are a recurring theme in my artwork so be