I experience organising Urban Sketching meetings, a live drawing modality that consists of capturing your personal vision of your immediate world and the places you travel to, for instance, in your sketchbook, making reports of daily events as a visual diary. I was also an organiser of the monthly meetings in Southampton (UK), a monthly meeting between artists of all kinds to draw together as a way to encourage the practice of the Urban Sketchers Manifesto (website).

Manifesto

• 1.) We draw on location, indoors or out, capturing what we see from direct observation.
• 2.) Our drawings tell the story of our surroundings, the places we live, and where we travel.
• 3.) Our drawings are a record of time and place.
• 4.) We are truthful to the scenes we witness.
• 5.) We use any kind of media and cherish our individual styles.
• 6.) We support each other and draw together.
• 7.) We share our drawings online.
• 8.) We show the world, one drawing at a time.

I love to draw directly from life using a wide range of materials, including ink, crayons, and watercolour on paper. Every place I visit becomes a subject for my work as I capture my experiences in a storytelling mode, focusing on the locations and the people I meet. This selection of sketches is drawn from over one hundred works in my sketchbook, ranging from the Proclamation of the Ascension of Charles III at Buckingham Palace in London to refugee camps in Greece. I believe it is essential to preserve and document recordings of buildings, historic moments and ways of life that are changing or disappearing in the form of Reportage Illustration.
Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Ireland, England, Italy, Scotland, Wales, Greece, Bulgaria, and Poland are some of the countries recorded in my sketchbooks.