These are drawings from an early sketchbook, circa 1983/84 just at the time when I started teaching and decided that I should start to draw from life. Prior to that I was of the abstrat bent, or photographic, and not thinking of myself as a 'drawing' sort of artist. It is rare still that I really manage to lose myself in my drawing, difficult to find the time to put aside to do this. The primary reason for putting these drawings up on this site is to experiment with the gallery software, but also in thinking back over the course of my own artistic practice. I wonder what might have been had I kept up this sort of drawing, especially the landscape and imaginative. Where was the energy coming from to do this drawing - youth, family free, seeking a partner, the raw energy of the groups of people I was with, drawings of women I was attracted to, drawings for women that I was attracted to.