Two Ways of Drawing

Join exhibiting artist Charles Poulsen to explore two very different strands of his drawing practice in this talk. He creates descriptive pencil drawings in sketchbooks to generate new sculptural ideas, which he also uses for practical purposes such as explaining to contractors how to build his sculptures. Poulsen’s other drawings are large, abstract and expressive, and realised in layers of pencil, wax and gouache, through which he communicates often intuitive ideas about the universe. They are more about energy than any particular subject matter – the invisible, the organic forces of growth, forces which drive the winds and currents, the energies within and beyond the earth.