DANCE ARTWORKS

Original drawings, paintings, prints and greetings cards

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Drawing and painting movement, particularly dance, is one of the most joyful ways I've found to work as an artist.

I've studied dance both in participating and watching professionals working since childhood and in the last few years I've felt this work (which began as a fun way to practice drawing) develop in to something I actually considered worth offering up as finished artwork in itself. 

I adore everything about the theatre, the velvet curtain and the costumery, the sense of occasion and the orchestra... in my work though, I strip that away to showcase the 'bare bones' of the expressive ability of the body. With this in mind, it became most important to work to show the amalgamation of a dancers technical ability, sense of movement and its result - a seemingly effortless jewel of a performance and the challenge to capture the exactness of beautifully choreographed bodies in motion, be that ballet, burlesque or even theatrical combat, is a niche delight to which I'm very much addicted. The work has become (at times quite literally) an enriching conversation with these illusive artists, who in their passionate dedication, illuminate life with their fierce attack and respect. They've shown me such surprising kindness and support. In 2019, just before 'that thing' struck the world, I held my first show in support of Northern Ballet and a few months later I faced a long interlude in the form of 'that virus' major surgeries and renovating my house. 

I am so happy to finally be back at it - I hope you enjoy. I will be building to producing affordable prints, myself, as I believe in keeping art accessible, this will include greetings cards etc - but we're starting off with original sketches & drawings - the sooner we get that going the sooner I can invest in a professional grade large printer to produce stock of a quality that I want my customers to have x Thanks for your patience x 

INSTAGRAM - @thatdanceartist