wittyneal.art

To understand why I feel compelled to make marks is a constant source of bewilderment to me, never quite reaching to the point of contact, never having the sense of completion at any time. The very moment my hand stops on a piece of work I am spell-bound to start another, almost immediately, it never leaves me. I never planned to be an artist, never had a moment of inspiration from someone I met, nor anywhere I went, I guess you could say it’s just in my blood and those around me allow me the room to accommodate it.

I’m always looking at my surroundings, stopping to look at or into something just to observe it, I think my creativity is a form of expression for my mind, it centres me in a space and tethers my being for a few moments in time – inside of which I can swim and be free, cocooned within whatever it is I’ve settled on to draw.

I have been on this journey for my entire life and enjoy being outdoors a lot and the tranquility it has to offer, taking photographs and sketching using a simple ink pen straight onto paper with no preliminary sketch, the faster the better. If I’m feeling particularly attached to a piece of work I will use charcoal pencil to make a little more of a nuanced work.

Pulling together my website has proved an interesting process, allowing me to stand back and see a bigger catalogue of my recent work, all of which I am very proud. It inspires me now to think once I have another piece of work in hand, instead of losing it in my folders, I can scan it on here and really start to build a compilation of work to better understand where I’m heading with it all. So thank you for being a part of it.