I made this drawing “The Gite Set” - over the last couple of days:
It explores the recent phenomenon of English people emigrating to France and running gites. It studies the subject from a number of angles - such as reasons why people want to do this, how dreams can be undone, socio-economic factors driving this, and I mix this with an invented story. These are all superimposed on each other like layers of acetate, to try to reveal a bigger picture and show how things are connected and linked up.

I’m describing this as “Diagram Art” - a mixture of mind maps/ decision diagrams/ flowcharts/ system diagrams/ moodboards/ graphic novels. They engage with social and current issues - but issues which are part of my life - as I have actually considered doing something like this. It’s my attempt to explore quite serious subjects and explain them in depth in a fun accessible way.

Basically I see this as the first one of a series of drawings , exploring subjects from multiple angles.

I think this would work printed big - A0 or A1? More on this later, as I’ve written quite a few notes while this work evolved.