I’ve just posted a large A1 drawing that I made two weeks ago in response to the Greek Myth of Medea. This comes from a collaborative request from a group called Artipeeps in Cambridge England. Some artists and poets are going to choose selected books from Ovid’s ‘Metamorphosis’ to illustrate either visually or with the written word. I’ve set myself the task of making a drawing every weekend exploring Book Seven which is the story of Medea’s love for Jason, the finding of the Golden Fleece, his betrayal of her and the ultimate murder of their sons by Medea in an act of revenge. This is a huge and very dark subject, but very interesting. I am also exploring a more up to date interpretation, but am in the very early stages of doing this. The next post shows this take on the story. It uses some text from Susan Cadogan’s 1975 hit ‘Hurt so Good’ The lines seemed to resonate with the Medea story. Sonia Boyce the artist used them in an installation too. I did a workshop with her many years ago at the Glasgow School of Art and really liked the idea of exploring the use of text with drawing. I’ll share the drawings I did at the workshop in my next blog.