Artist
About M. Slowey
Statement
All of my doodle illustrations initially come to life on scraps of paper, backs of food menus, napkins, note books and sketch pads - really, anything to hand. The vehicle for their creation is whatever is within reach - usually a ballpoint pen, pencil or sometimes the extravagance of a marker pen, and always hopeful of multiple different colours.
They have been stored for years in various places like some weird squirrels hoard, inexplicably precious to myself alone, Or so my doubting mind has always led me to believe.
They've congregated en mass in drawers and boxes, sheds and garages - a lot have suffered from water damage; which is why some have been randomly cut for display, as no one likes dog ears.. Do they?
The doodles always manifest randomly, yet always in this style - I've made them for as long as I remember.. Always doodling. Never really knowing which direction the scribbles will take, which form will appear, what character or animal.
Some sort of unconscious unscrambling of my oddly dyslexic, awkward dyspraxic self. Whilst pondering lifes ifs' and buts, failures, successes, dreams and nightmares, in times of stress, boredom, sadness and joy... And always doodling whilst on the phone to a client as I forged a tedious 'meaningful' career in sales.
It's my little creative obsession and I love the shapes and images which come from it. They by no means define me but I recognise they are a part of me.. It is the thing I do. It stabilises my mind and more often than not helps to make me smile.
