The drawings also examine the nature of drawing itself: marks on paper and how marks themselves communicate regardless of content. Marks on a poster differ from marks on a page in a book, each communicating in a very different way and raising a very different expectation of what is being communicated. In ‘Has the journey been too long!’ the artist draws attention to marking, the act of drawing, and the emotion of line itself.

Often, the artist argues, we rarely look at emotions in their raw form instead we are bombarded by images of emotion which in fact prevent us from seeing real feelings.

In one drawing a clown fires a gun, but it is a wing, not a ‘bang’ sign which is released. In another, children and babies are fed Prozac. The drawings examine and challenge the way in which we accept stylised images of violence, innocence or happiness — yet often these representations surrounding us hide the truth behind the images. We are given sentimentality and clichéd images of happiness or sorrow instead of any real examination of true emotion.