Hester Finch is an artist I’ve recently come across on Instagram and I’m loving her use of colour and mark-making. She’s so expressive and verging on the abstract in some areas, but then pulling it back into recognisable form and shape in others. It’s the spaces in-between her marks that makes this so accomplished.

And another artist who’s Instagram name is na-Seoil, her faces are so expressive and those hands! Looking on Instagram in lockdown has really been helping me visualise where I am seeing my work going.

Artist’s like these are capturing something intangible, the marks feel born out of their feeling for a person, rather than just trying to represent their physical features, which can only ever tell us a limited amount about that person under the skin.

I’m continuing to delve into my unconscious and am curious how easy it appears for some artists to do this and so harder for others (like myself) to trust theses deeper creative instincts. I am trying and when I can let go and just draw it does come together. The oil pastels are still helping me relax into this. I’ve even started using pencil crayons in my sketchbook drawing again. I find it fun and relaxing and my lines are free to wander without my judgement!