Large-scale charcoal drawings were a natural progression for my work, away from the constraints of watercolour painting. It was during my time on the Natural History Illustration and Ecological Studies MA course at the RCA while studying Sark’s coastline that I experimented with other mediums previously unfamiliar to me. The dramatic atmospheric qualities and infinite textures which can be achieved with natural charcoal sticks and a putty rubber seemed to portray the wind and wave-beaten qualities of Sark’s forbidding cliffs much more effectively.
