Andrew Sudell Davis

I create drawings in a tightly restricted format - 16" square drawing on white mount board using rapidograph and pantone markers.

The discipline of having a very limited format is surprisingly inspiring. Along with the size, format and materials, I'm also restricted to 'what I can draw' (ie I can't draw people) and also the elements that I use in those drawings - the leaves, the buildings, waves, geometric shapes, iconic themes (flags and other symbols).

But within those confines, I find that I have more creative ideas than I have time to produce. I have a mental waiting list of drawings that I have yet to make real in ink. Also, as time goes on, I find new concepts to incorporate into new designs, and so the style evolves. But, as each drawing takes at least 20 man-hours to complete, it's a slow-drip development.

I find there's something wholesome about doing laborious, detailed work by hand - and the fact that you cannot easily edit it, once you have drawn a line on paper, makes everything more of a commitment and therefore more important as you are doing it.

July 2008: Roots - Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery

October 2012: Four Seasons - Singleton Environmental Centre, Ashford

November 2012: Bentlif Prize - Maidstone Museum

February 2013: Inspired London - Know How Festival, Kings Cross

March 2013: Hope Exhibition - MHRNC annual conference, Wrexham

June 2013: Shortlisted for the Hazlitt Theatre StARTle award, Maidstone

July 2013: Lingfield Summer Exhibition, Lingfield Community Centre

September 2013: Fusion Arts Exhibition, Kent College, Pembury

October 2013: LEO/UNISON art exhibition, Town Hall, Tunbridge Wells

December 2013: Christmas show, Art Pull Gallery, Tunbridge Wells

January 2014: Best Of Art exhibition, Rochester Independent College

March 2014: Suburban Secrets - solo show, The Almond Tree Cafe, Brighton

April 2014: Watts Charity/Chatham Intra exhibition, Nucleus Arts Gallery, Chatham

April 2014: 'Flight' exhibition, Art Pull Gallery, Tunbridge Wells

May 2014: 'Urban/Rural' exhibition, Art Pull Gallery, Tunbridge Wells

July 2014: SEE Art Fair, Tunbridge Wells

January 2015: SOIL exhibition, Horsebridge Centre, Whitstable

March 2015: Bentlif Prize - Maidstone Museum

July 2015: Lingfield Summer Exhibition, Lingfield Co...