Atelier

By hand

Drawing, painting and model-making are where many of my ideas start, long before the computer. A selection of portraits, studies, paintings and handmade models from architecture school.

Drawings, paintings and studies

Pencil portrait of an elderly labourer beside sketches of construction workers
[COM]-P-[ACT]. A portrait of the workers who build our cities, drawn alongside a poem about their days.
Pencil portrait of a woman wearing a dupatta and earrings
Portrait study.
Abstract painting with marbled ochre, brown and green
Abstract.
Detailed graphite drawing of a lion's head
Lion.
Pencil portrait of a woman with large hoop earrings
Portrait study.
Abstract painting with diagonal bands of colour
Abstract.
Pencil study of geometric solids: cube, cone and pyramid
Study of solids.
Pencil portrait of a woman carrying a pot, in a stylised folk manner
Portrait study.
Ink drawing of Atlas carrying the globe
Atlas.
Pencil still life of hanging objects
Still life.
Abstract painting with sweeping green, yellow and purple strokes
Abstract.
Laser-cut model with an organic perforated pattern
Perforated panel study.
Pencil portrait of a smiling child
Portrait study.
Pencil landscape with mountains, pine trees and a hut
Landscape.
Second view of the perforated panel model
Perforated panel study.

Handmade models

Physical models built by hand to test form, structure and composition.

Folded playing-card model forming a spiky, wave-like surface
Folded card model.
Model of a framed structure with angled members
Frame model.
Three blue and green composition models with curved black strips
Composition models.