Robert Finlayson artist sketchbooks

Still lifes (above) weren't usually sketched first, nor were portraits. I'm not sure whether this was ever painted

The sketchbooks are like a map of Bob's creative development and his life. As well as providing a fascinating history of his artistic ideas they contain from time to time poems that he wrote, drafts for signwriting assignments or book cover designs, people's phone numbers and addresses, children's scribbles, card game scores (Bob always claimed not to be fond of cards but was tolerant of others' requests that he play), words from songs he admired and sums relating to his next pay. The sketchbooks from the 1990s also sometimes contain photographs, his younger daughter's school reports, dried leaves, cards and notes from people, feathers, newspaper clippings, receipts and other everyday fragments.

Robert Finlayson kept sketchbooks for most of his life, and in them he drew ideas for paintings or other works with annotations on how they would be created - colours, materials, emphasis. The sketchbooks contain many drawings that were realised as works, but just as many that never made it past the drawing stage.


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