ANIMAL DRAWINGS

Drawings from the 2006 exhibition “Anna Redwine: Life in One Breath“

I complete each drawing in a minute or two as I'm watching the animal-- they're strictly from life. When the animal moves, so do the marks I make. If the animal leaves the drawing is over. In East Asian calligraphy this approach of creating a work of art in one sitting, never to work back into it, is referred to as painting in 'one breath'.
In this body of work I use the verb 'to draw' to mean not only to place marks on a surface but to extract or distill, like 'drawing' blood or 'drawing' a breath. These marks are extractions of life more than depictions of it. In drawing these pictures I attempt to distill the essence of the animal by placing marks on a surface, and in doing so participate briefly in the life of the animal.

Exhibition Images