Diary Drawing Day 711 , 2008
30.5 x 22.9 cm (h x w)
Watercolour and pencil on paper

I just love this. This is my last drawing. And it's called 'The Daily Stream of Consciousness'. And by this stage, I had so many ideas. I think I did it in France. I was staying in France a lot for that summer. And I was listening to an audiobook of London by Peter Ackroyd, where he writes about the bridges across the Thames. And there's a really famous etching, I think, done by a Dutch artist of the Thames, which has bridges like that, and it or maybe it didn't, maybe I just imagined it, but it was the time they were, he mapped the globe, but it was that style of drawing. So I was thinking about that. And Peter Ackroyd was talking about history and the Thames. But I was also listening, and the Stream of Consciousness I was reading about, and then I think it's a Bill Bryson book I was listening to, as well as an audiobook. And it all came together in this idea of the Stream of Consciousness, which funnily enough, it was William James, the psychologist coined it in, I think it was in 1890s. But the Suffragettes took it up, the feminists, Virginia Woolf, they were very passionate about this idea of so many ideas going on all the time. And I know it affected her writing and I got very excited about it as the concept of this way of your mind having so many things going on, and magpie ideas all coming together, and then how you live through your day and my passion by then because I was mentally the best I as I am now, you know, that ordeal led to this state of such acceptance of myself and the world to a degree, feeling comfortable in my own skin, but I knew what I wanted was everyday life. What's always been my interest everyday life, parks, dogs, bikes, cars, children, just everyday life. I wanted that going on around me while I had all these ideas. And so I put three, there's a, I think there's a kayak, a cabin cruiser, and a rowing boat. So the cabin cruiser was sort of family holiday's it's a bit naff. And then we got a kayak when I was little, which I really hated. But it was meant to be an exciting thing to do. That sums up a lot my life and now I'm in a rowing boat, sort of tootling about on my own quite a lot of the time. And then this Stream of Consciousness going through my mind and I love the painting that's the one you can see all the tiny, tiny highlights I put on. Took me quite a long time, but I was very excited when that idea came together. I knew it was the last one of those series of drawings. That's it. That's what I want out of life. This is where I've got to now - what a relief.

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Diary Drawing Day 669 , 2007
30.5 x 22.9 cm (h x w)
Watercolour and pencil on paper
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Diary Drawing Day 630 , 2007
30.5 x 22.9 cm (h x w)
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Diary Drawing Day 579 , 2006
30.5 x 22.9 cm (h x w)
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Diary Drawing Day 527 , 2005
30.5 x 22.9 cm (h x w)
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Diary Drawing Day 526 , 2005
30.5 x 22.9 cm (h x w)
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