Toni Le Busque's stories.

This was the

first of the large

scale drawings I

Did. I began to do these

large drawings after the

suicide of my father in

2001.

I'd found the roll of paper in

a charity shop in Shepherds Bush

and just emptied my head on to the paper

Ways of coping living in a tiny town where no one ever/rarely buys/looks at your paintings/drawings.

11.Drag out some you old pictures and praise yourself for ‘maturing’ as an artist.

I found this drawing, stuck in a bin, with lots of other old drawings.
it’s the very first of the black and white drawings I ever did and it was done primarily to empty my head of the mush that had been left behind after my dad’s suicide a few months previous.
i never went back, really.
it was black and white all the way after that.

The only real change has been the size.
i got wise and fit everything to an IKEA frame now.