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015·2019–2025

Pen plotter

Drawings made by a machine holding a pen

Drawings made with a pen plotter: the first drawings in 2019, the machine and a long run of drawings in spring 2020 — several plotted over watercolour — and tori drawn over watercolour in 2025.

2019: a wireframe blob in black over green ellipses and loose quadrilaterals, plotted on a printed sheet2019: dense black stippling plotted over a blue watercolour wash2019: a watercolour of nested blue squares on a cutting mat2019: black and copper lines plotted over the nested blue watercolour squares2019: black and red plotted lines swirling over a blue watercolour2020: the plotter's pen arm drawing contour lines on a large sheet2020: the plotter drawing in green over a scribbled image, the machine at the left edge2020: a watercolour of blue squares with many layers of plotted lines and dots2020: a layered green and blue plotted drawing on a workbench, wires and a ruler around it2020: a 3D scene on screen of rocks in a ring around a central form2020: a plotted ring of faceted polyhedra around a large one, signed2020: a white-on-black plotted drawing of an animal's fur2020: the render of an orange half-dome with a cyan cube and a purple panel2020: the same scene plotted as a wireframe dome, a cube breaking its surface2020: thousands of small plotted cubes spiralling out from a centre2020: a 3D view on screen of a sphere breaking into green fragments2020: the breaking sphere plotted in blue, green and red, signed2020: a sheet of sixteen numbered frames of a wireframe sphere coming apart2020: a line drawing of shapes and flowers, coloured markers laid below it2020: a large colourful pattern of hatched shapes and blue flowers taped to the plotter bed2020: the finished pattern drawing: hatched shapes in pink, teal and grey around violet flowers2020: rows of teal flower shapes, each filled with a different hatching2020: a close view of the pattern: a violet flower hatched in fine lines among striped shapes2025: interlocking tori plotted over a watercolour, taped to a board