Description
One of my first disaster pictures. Completed around 1982, before I switched from dipping pen to fineliners. It has proved to be one of my most satisfying drawings. It’s a weird place, but if, under a witness protection program, I had to relocate, this would do. This would have taken two or three months to complete, had we not been raising a young family at the time. So it probably took a year. By now I had worked out that the right-hand corner of labour-intensive pieces like this tend to suffer from repeated hand movements. So I took to wearing linen gloves and long sleeves. I would also work with kitchen paper stuffed in my mouth, as a precaution against drooling.
Robin Reynolds
Robin Reynolds works in pen-and-ink and watercolour. His best-known works are his historical panoramas of London and New Orleans.
Robin was born in Zimbabwe 1952. He spent most of his working life in journalism and business communications in the United Kingdom. Latterly he was responsible for the BBC’s art and history collections.
Initially he pursued drawing in spare time between work and family commitments. But since 2010 he has been developing stories in pictures full-time, along a number of themes – notably fantasy townscapes and disasters, and, more recently, city panoramas.
Recent projects include a pictorial history of the Tower of London, a study of do-it-yourself dentistry, and his own Life Misremembered, a visual autobiography set inside a human brain.
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