Cambridge Chelsea Fringe, May 2015

Admitting the Possibilities of Error beside (and in honour of) the Cambridge Oak using colours suggested by 42 people asked to choose one colour to draw a tree, with accompanying historical timeline sourced from Wikipedia on May 29 2015

The Cambridge Oak was planted around 1873 making it 142 years old. I drew one circle for each year of its life. The tree has developed a fungal infection and is now dying. A graft was planted on Cory Lawn in 1991 and is growing well.  

I started this sketchbook in February, since then it has been responded to by 4 other members of my Drawing Circle group. These are the pages before it begins another circuit of creative responses. 

Thank you Karen, Paul, Andrea and Lucy.

Performance Arcade Live Art & Music Festival 2015. Waterfront, Wellington New Zealand

Admitting the Possibilities of Error in Wellington, 57 hours drawing using pens and pencils donated by businesses and individuals many of whom transformed a remembered (positive) mistake into food, transport, clothing, plants, animals, or colours