It is the place to make mistakes – they are cheap in time and materials; those initial marks often tell me in a few strokes whether an idea is a goer or a dud. At art college we were indoctrinated with the notion that sketchbooks were a central plank of being an artist. I became a father in 1992, and when my young daughter Flo and I started drawing together for fun it rekindled my enthusiasm for sketching, reminding me that not every artwork had to count towards my slowly developing “career”.

Copyright in non-photographic images and video material on the site belongs to various owners and permission to reproduce or use any such image or video material must first be obtained from Antenne Books. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. The density of thought, the love of art and the sheer number of man-hours in each one load them with huge meaning and memory for me. Antenne Books is committed to protecting your privacy and will only use the information we collect about you lawfully. Bringing together his favourites for the first time and showing some of the finished works that result from these initial drawings, the result is a rich, beautiful book perfect for those who want to know more about an artist’s creative process.When I managed to set up my first ceramic studio, in 1986, all my creative energy became focused on clay.

If I put pen to paper it can feel like I have a version of the Midas touch – each mark becomes a pound sign.Antenne Books was realised as a distribution platform against this background, initiated to support the large growth of these emerging publishers, who at the time had limited means to distribute their work using traditional models of book distribution.

In the early years after college, sketchbooks were a way of keeping my practice going, as I had no other creative outlet; and I put several hours into each image, giving the books the obsessive, private quality of outsider art. Also available are titles from major artist book publishers Printed Matter, Patrick Remy, Tarmac and InOtherWords and magazines from Heavy Traffic, Mousse, Real Review, Al Hayya, Luncheon, BUTT and Dirty Magazine. This could be a technique I consider to begin with to give me space to add personal notes as it is something I feel quite hesitant and reluctant to do but the space would also force me out of my comfort zone. I treasured them and filled them with diagrams of fantasy aircraft and plans of racing cars, adventure comics and war scenes. Unfortunately is most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site.This page (together with the documents referred to in it) details the terms of use on which you make use of the site: www. Your statutory rights shall remain unaffected by these Terms and Conditions, and except in accordance with these Terms and Conditions all purchases are non-exchangeable, non-refundable and non-transferable. They understood that students would often choke when laying out their ideas in a larger, more finished form. If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. I regularly flick through old sketchbooks, as I have a habit of jotting down a few words or a tiny doodle of an idea at the very first glimmer.