Good afternoon Lana, I hope you are feeling better. I got your email of yesterday and noted your mentioning early thoughts on a website that will carry your archive. I have added the text to our Conversations.

It is perfectly possible for an artist to keep producing without recourse to outside advice. But from what you have told me, you are doing so without confidants, without collaborators and without a grouping in support. I see a future where you make these contacts, culminating perhaps in a group show in Wales which addresses what it is to look from without into a home culture.

Until this happens I am happy to send you regular thoughts on
1. Your work as shown
2. Possible research that may offer more options
3. Suggestions based on artists I have taught and still keep in touch with.

Again, I want to insist that nothing I write will be advice under pressure. You will make your own mind up, with a clear proportion of intuition. Based on the imagery you have recently been posting, drawings expressing the beauty of the human body and interaction / gatherings of impromptu abstractions on a single page, have a look at compositions with human bodies that have coded accessories, or incorporate a set of personal signs or gestures.

I’ll send you regularly Case Studies for your thoughts. Please take your time.

CASE STUDY WATTEAU. https://www.fulltable.com/VTS/aoi/w/WATTEAU/watteau.htm a list of my books used here at home…..

He explores a wide range of poses with men and women’s bodies. He evokes sound, through musical instruments. In his drawings (which are so wonderful) he looks at the turn of the head, an angle of the wrist, and tries to establish a coherent backdrop. In “Embarkation for Cythera” there is a gentle yearning to leave for a distant and mysterious place. In the Donald Posner book you see Watteau experimenting in his sketch with a nude on a couch (attached beneath) . He tries to incorporate a Nurse with a medical instrument the 18th century fascination with an Enema) , but realises he’s gone too far and eventually paints only the woman on the couch.

When you look at one of your erotic drawings, ask questions of it about
Interaction
Background
Gesture
Implicit sound
Expression
Accessory, even if a bangle or necklace.

Nothing you mentally project into the drawing needs to be then incorporated. You just get to widen your options, for the next one/ones. You are not copying Watteau but testing yourself in the theatre of his art.

This is the sketch Posner discusses in his book.

best wishes

Chris