![]() ![]() If you are interested in a print of this piece then please click here Options The drawing is backed with acid free paper, and is hand signed and titled on the reverse. The original drawing comes mounted in a bright white colour mount as standard, but can be framed for an extra cost. ![]() This Key drawing is available as the original piece itself or as a print (limited to 30 only). Mount Size – Suitable for a 8″ x 6″ frame, ready to pop straight in your frame. ‘Key to Success’ is part of the ‘Keys to Life (From the Mind of an Artist in Lockdown)’ series. When people can apply these things I believe they are capable of anything they set their heart on achieving in life. * The abandoned cat that has come to live with us a few days after lockdown started.I strongly believe now more than ever, that success is there for the taking, for anyone who chooses to never give up even when things feel difficult, and who have a positive outlook on life, choosing to regard problems as challenges to overcome, failures as lessons to learn from, and turn negative thoughts around into positive solutions with their mindset. * Pesta (the depiction of the Black Death as an old woman from Norwegian folklore, after the great Theodor Kittelsen). It can be very faint, it can be darkest dark. I love the humble pencil, it’s been a great companion to me since childhood and I don’t suppose I’ll grow out of it. And every day there’s a little moment of quiet with the pencil and the paper. If it works, great, if it doesn’t that’s fine too. I’ve started work on another book, something that I’ve been thinking about for a while. I’ve turned 50 in lockdown and my son has hit 13. I don’t spend hours and hours on each drawing, and some of them I really don’t like at all, but I post them anyway, because a drawing a day is the rule for me and it’s my routine. I was in new territory and it’s a different way of traveling when traveling’s not possible. I was drawing people and animals I’d never have drawn otherwise. They’d say Baba Yaga or a goat in Wales, or a Martha Gelhorn, a Virginia Woolf, a pigeon, a mouse, a capybara, an Aye-Aye, a Buster Keaton and I’d reply in pencil. From that other people started asking for drawings and suddenly here was communication. King Lear followed and then a friend quarantined in Rome asked me for a Defoe. And then Pepys because I was missing London and my native England, and because of his account of London in plague. I drew a determined young woman, and then a grackle because I love grackles. And so then I had an event in my daily life, and even a bit of structure, a routine, and it felt wonderful. Why not? How many drawings will there be? God knows. I hadn’t meant to, the idea was just there. So I just drew a determined looking young fellow and I posted the drawing on Twitter and Instagram and as I did it, I typed: I’ll do this every day. I always draw the characters I write about, that’s mostly what I draw but now the characters were being put away for a while. Before lockdown started, I had been working on a novel set in a strange children’s hospital but I felt I couldn’t do that, not now, later. Like so many of us, I wondered how on earth to fill this time. ![]()
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