My grandad isn’t very good at Pictionary because he tries too hard to precisely replicate the prompt from the little card…well, either that or he’s entirely misinterpreted the prompt. In my work, I reproduce this same laboured approach to form and image to convey sections of the domestic narrative. 

I approach Hyperrealism as a challenge to bring life to a still moment. Why not use a photograph? I get asked constantly. Photographs, to me, are flat and lack the character a drawing represents. Digital photography, especially, compresses the data of an image into midtones, leaving little elaboration for the shadows and highlights. I hope to bring back some charisma to our lives which have become so digitised.   

With the addition of houseplants in my images suggests the ephemeral nature of the drawing process and highlights the laborious efforts to decode photography onto paper using only graphite. I hope to illuminate not only the beauty in the moment of my images but also the importance of digesting the world around us with purpose and care.