Found Materials – Through the Sketchbook

The artist fills books with found materials that include traces of the food she eats, items from the natural world and from places she visits. She makes notes about where things are found, eg. dust from the Vatican basilica. She also sketches from the items she collects.

Mixed media.

Artist: Candy Jernigan.

See the book, Evidence: The art of Candy Jernigan. Laurie Dolphin. Chronicle Books. 1999.

What has the sketchbook been in the past and what can it be today? Together this website demonstrates how sketchbooks cross disciplines, skills, cultures, gender, and class etc., to gain a better understanding.

The sketchbooks appear here not necessarily for the 'name' of the artist, but for the different thinking and seeing through the sketchbook.