Annie Oulton is a life-drawing artist, working both independently and with groups of other artists.
Most recently she has been involved in a four hour, monthly session, with the almost continuous movement of the model to music. The end result is a sequence of expressive drawings, made with a variety of materials, including clay, ink, compressed charcoal, wax, and using Sumi brushes, sticks, feathers and hands.
The work is an experimental series of drawings in which the human figure is simply the starting point in conveying attitudes of mind and spirit. In this environment, movement and the music is central to the connection between model and artist. It might be said that every emotion that can be felt and every idea that can be thought is expressed through the language of the figure. Dance has been used for this form of expression throughout time, and in every culture. Figure artists attempt to realise the same essence of the moment by committing it to paper. The expression of meaning becomes a sort of poetry, in which just a few pictorial elements can convey an intense moment of feeling, in the same way that poets make choices about language to convey timeless truths.
Original work and a limited edition of prints available for sale.
