These are drawings executed in pen and ink on paper. An A4 drawing comprises
a grid of approximately 7,500 hand-drawn ascii characters.

An ascii image is edited then transposed to paper by hand,
character by character. The drawing constructed is an engagement
with the folk-art technique of ascii image-making.
It is the record of a meditative performance, as each
drawing requires repetitious activity, often over several months,
to complete. The drawing is an interrogation of the machine-made,
as the technique tends continually to mechanical precision without
ever in fact wholly arriving at it. The drawing viewed close-up is
encountered as a mass of characters, but at a distance resolves into
a rendering of a photographic image.

The open-ended series is titled 'Estuary English'.

Works in the series have been exhibited in:
Discerning Eye (2018, 2019, and 2020)
Westmorland Landscape Prize (2019)
Bath Society of Artists Open Exhibition (2020)
Wells Art Contemporary (2021).

Wayne Clements