Claude Heath

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'When you follow the movements of a football across a flat TV screen you sometimes have the sensation that the ball is going in a certain direction when it turns out to have a different arc altogether and ends up at the feet of a different player than you had first thought. Its true movements are hidden by the flatness of the screen until it arrives at some particular part of the pitch. This same kind of sensation sometimes happens while drawing, when you attempt to compress the sight and touch of a solid object onto various parts of a flat surface'.

Claude Heath, Statement, Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon School of Art, October 2001.

Works on this website can all be related to back to drawing. They include heads, drawn blindfolded; also plants, using use my eyes to scan as fingertips might do and drawn in different planes simultaneously; and aerial views of landscapes, based upon stereo photography; and galaxies, derived from the Springer 3D Atlas of Stars.

Some of the works were produced with multi-dimensional drawing processes, recording freehand drawing movements digitally. All of the drawing processes were chosen for their element of unpredictabilty and their capacity to show things differently.

Works shown are in private & public collections (listed) or the artist.