Inside the Sketchbook of Xanthe Burdett
Xanthe Burdett is a London-based artist who works primarily as a painter, but her work, which is concerned with nature and the body, also extends to drawing and installation. Here, she shares her sketchbook practice, how she translates her drawings and composition ideas using Renaissance methods, and some of her tricks for approaching a fresh new sketchbook when you find yourself feeling precious about the blank page. Inside the Sketchbook of Xanthe Burdett I usually have a few sketchbooks on the go at once. I’ll use them to scribble something down very roughly as a new idea for a painting arrives. Or do a series of compositional drafts when I’m working things out. I prefer smaller sketchbooks – usually A5 – that can be chucked in a bag and taken into the woods to sketch trees or to museums to draw from tapestries and paintings. I like to move pretty freely within a book, I’ll often return to older pages and layer them with new drawings and ideas. For a few years, I made my own sketchbooks. I do a lot of community facilitation work alongside painting which meant that I had piles and piles of …
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