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I was led to abstract drawing in the late 1970s while I was travelling through the United States. Jane Abraham, whom I met in Yazoo City, Mississippi, introduced me to a form of therapeutic, spontaneous graphic expression. During the early 1980s I started drawing intensively, producing abstract, instinctive pen, ink and pastel figures. Until the end of the 1980s I tried all sort of experiments with no particular rationale, just drawing what I felt, the same way I had always played music. Not interested in rehearsing, I went for extemporaneous, straightforward expression. Following a series of evolving, unconscious compositive processes, I found myself producing some profiles of birds and mostly abstract faces with eyes, noses, mouths with teeth, sometimes ears, and by the end of the 1990s, neck and torso as well. Technically I use acid-free extra-smooth surface Bristol drawing paper. My favourite sheet size is A4 (8.3x11.7 inches; 21x29.7 cm). I often use an Osama Brava Gel (0.5) technical black ink gel pen.

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