The Living Scroll
The Living Scroll is an ongoing series of long continuous drawings begun in 2017, recording life as it unfolds. Each scroll moves through domestic interiors, family life, walks, journeys and landscapes, combining everyday moments with memory, imagination and observation in a flowing visual narrative.
The early scrolls focus closely on home and immediate surroundings. Over time the work became more experimental, with a wider range of media and increasing use of abstraction, invention and reflection alongside direct observation.
Each scroll is made on a ten-metre length of Fabriano cartridge paper. Drawings are created directly onto the surface without editing or revision — everything remains. The scrolls therefore record not only events and places, but also the movement and discoveries of the drawing process itself.
Across more than ninety scrolls — approaching a kilometre in total length — the work has developed into a large chronological visual journal in which places, people and recurring themes gradually reappear and evolve over time.
Unlike a sketchbook or screen image, the scrolls are intended to be experienced physically, unfolding gradually through space and time.
This composite image brings together all completed and digitally recorded scrolls in chronological order, beginning with the earliest at the bottom and progressing upward to the most recent. Seen together, the scrolls form a continuous visual record extending across nearly a decade of drawing.
