{"id":431,"date":"2015-02-26T06:06:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T14:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/painting\/?p=431"},"modified":"2016-06-08T07:45:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T15:45:04","slug":"1991-sketchbook-march-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/painting\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"1991: Sketchbook March – June"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am scanning and putting this rather messy preparatory sketchbook online from March 1991 as it crosses over between the previous figurative work and a new cartoon-like and more surreal direction. The image above is an important breakthrough to that later style.<\/p>\n

I had applied and been accepted on to an Art Teacher Training course at Reading University which was meant to commence in September 1991. I was also helping my friend Laura Stenhouse prepare for her Illustration M.A. show at Central St. Martins in June 1991. She illustrated a suite of my poems and songs (see separate entry above).<\/p>\n

So this was a period where I could ‘focus’ on art again instead of fencing or temporary admin.\u00c2\u00a0work as per usual. As the page in sketchbook shows I was looking at Simon Lewty, Edward Burra and Hockney.<\/p>\n

The sketchbook\u00c2\u00a0also contains the first version of the poem ‘Clinker’ titled here ‘The Age of Steam’. Read the final published version\u00c2\u00a0here at Poet and Geek website<\/a><\/p>\n

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The rest of 1991 consisted of the large outdoors charcoal drawings that led me to the Rocket press (see above) but that was not the only direction.<\/p>\n

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