Overwintering Hedge Punt, 2006
Textile, board and gesso
36cm x 48cm x 4cm

Jonathan Polkest is a visual artsit based in South-West England. His work crosses a number of disciplines including drawing and painting, photography and textiles. Works in drawing and photography have explored the use of pre-photographic texchniques and led to the creation of the Draw-Me camera obscura drawing booth and a numner of projects employing pin-hole technologies. He has also created a large body of painting and textile works threading twine through canvases treated with layers of colour and tectures.

Concepts
Drawing is my primary interest, the action, the outcome and the analysis. All my work in any media originates or is integrated to the action or idea of drawing.

Influences
An upbringing in Cornwall shaped the primary direction of my aesthetic approach to two dimensional artforms. Work in Performance/ Live art and theatre arts extended the opportunity to explore beyond the range of Cornwall's landscape and into a wider frame of reference.

www.jonathanpolkest.com