THE ARTIST

I started drawing regularly when I was 18. The work I produced was nothing much, but every new picture was slightly better than the last. I was learning from my mistakes as I went along. I'm completely self-taught, so I had to work out for myself where I was going wrong. Within a year, friends and family were asking me to do drawings for them. I must have spent dozens of hours in those few months, drawing, then giving the pictures away free. I was very flattered that people wanted my drawings, but I realised I should be selling them, rather than just giving them away. In those days, I was at college, and could 'knock up' a drawing in a few hours. However, it now takes between 25 & 40 hours to produce a picture. So where I was doing about 20 drawings a year in the early 1990s, by the late 90s I was struggling to produce 7 or 8. But if you compared the difference in the quality you'd see why. Now I'm at university studying for a Masters degree in History, so time to draw is now virtually non-existant, but I take the time to produce a piece whenever I can.

Mathew Homewood

October 2008

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