The Living Scroll
The Living Scroll is an ongoing visual journal begun in 2017, recording life as it unfolds. It moves through home, family life, walks and journeys, combining observation with memory and imagination.
The early scrolls concentrate on home and its surroundings. Over time, the work has become more experimental, introducing abstraction and a wider range of materials.
Each scroll is drawn directly onto a ten-metre length of Fabriano cartridge paper, without editing or revision: everything remains. The work records both everyday life and discoveries made through drawing.
There are now more than ninety scrolls, approaching a kilometre in total length. They are intended to be experienced physically, with viewers moving along them as scenes and stories unfold.
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.
