Drawing Circles: Letting Making Lead

Alongside my textile work, I’ve recently been returning to drawing, simply letting circles guide what appears on the page. Again I have limited myself to using black and white. I have puposefully used pen to avoid the tempation of rubbing lines out.

There’s no inial plan, I have just created marks responding to marks.

In these drawins the circle offers a structure: somewhere to begin and somewhere to return to. Within that boundary, lines, rhythms and patterns emerge. Some are deliberate and others arrive without conscious thought. The drawings becomes a quiet record of movement and attention.

This way of working mirrors what happens in the foundation workshops (but with alot more detail).

Whether through stitch or drawing, I’m interested in how making allows awareness to surface and how small gestures accumulate into something more interesting.

These drawings aren’t about creating finished artwork. If there is an intention, its about me noticing.

How my hand moves.Where my eye lingers and what rhythm feels natural in that moment.

I’m finding that returning to circles and drawing in this way, reminds me that creativity doesn’t need to be complex or to be 'understood'. Sometimes, a simple shape is enough to begin and with that start, endless possibilities.