Inspiration

To create a sense of a new world in my prints I needed to find a source of information that was unexpected and far from the norm when it comes to pattern. Stanlow oil refinery works perfectly for this, an ugly and unappealing complex by day, but by night it comes alive into a magnificent city scape.   The composition of the buildings and the lighting has given me the information I needed to create the drawings to be moved into prints. Line drawing has worked the most successfully, by keeping to black and white it leaves a sense of uncertainty to what the shapes are that I'm drawing. Each junction and line creates a level in the print that would work well repeated.