Cardiff Market

As a child my parents would often make Saturday trips to Cardiff and this always included a visit to the market. I can always remember how it appeared to me as a child with the Smells and the sounds of the market, thriving and beating within the bosom of the town. With the fish mongers and butchers, the bakers and greengrocers, the haberdashery and knickknack sellers. 

Getting to go back and visit the market as an adult and look at it in a completely different approach and being given the opportunity to focus all of my senses into the drawings was tough. I found it difficult to approach the drawings of the market in the way the task wanted us to focus. I had so many memories flooding through me along with the usual business of the market that I found it hard to concentrate and fully involve myself with the drawings and focus on one thing at a time.

Looking back through the work I managed to do, from my visit to the market, I can see that I have mainly focused on the architecture of the building in my sketches rather than the people, this could be because as I have grown older so has the building and yet we are still the same as where the people and objects within the market have changed throughout our relationship.

A step back in time......

I enjoyed exploring St Fagans and having the opportunity to study and draw anything that I wished in as much or as little detail as I wanted. Although I was restricted to only using black and white dry Medias, I found the whole task stimulating.

I found being restricted on timings spent on each drawing very difficult. I don’t tend to spend long on many of the drawings that I do, I much prefer to do quick sketchy drawings.  

I think I need to try out a larger variety of materials though, as I tend to find my niche and stick with it rather than experimenting. 

There are some images that I think are really effective but others however could do with some working on and trying again with the different Medias and spend longer on them.

I would like to go back again and discover parts of the museum that I didn’t get the chance to visit this time, hopefully when Tony next visits we can make a day of it. :)