Claude Heath

Claude Heath is an Artist renowed for his blind studies where he uses one hand to feel the subject and draw with the other hand all while blind folded.
"You create a problem and become fascinated with 'it'. (1) This line is one which feeds centrally into the artist's own work.
Heath's drawings are intense, private dialogues between the sitter/object and the artist. Larger installations and prints require a modification of technique. The artist photographs his work, then projects the enlarged images onto paper, tracing the lines one by one with a pounce wheel, which perforates the surface. He then fixes the colour through the 'stencil'. These images lose the nervy intensity of the drawings, but produce a more clearly articulated line."

The idea that you create a promblem just so you can solve it is what drives Claude to create these amazing pieces using pens, pencils and fine liners.

I still want to incorporate the idea of rocks and traces with in them and I would like to show this with drawing techniques like this and it would also give more of a focal point. I will practise these techniques for now until I can find a way to mix it in with my abstract coloure and texture ideas.