The Bodyweb series was started during Lockdown in 2020, they are all drawn during live sittings on Zoom, Skype or FaceTime. Size is mainly A2 (42 x 59.4 cm)

Excerpt from the catalogue to Doch at Mannheimer Kunstverein, May 2021:

“At an exhibition of mine some years ago, a boy of maybe 8 years walked up to me, pointed to the paintings on the walls and asked: “why are they all naked?” I did not have a good answer to hand, but – having clarified my thoughts a little since then -I would say this: I did my first life drawings when I was about 17… a friend of a friend was pregnant and it was suggested that I draw her because she looked so beautiful. As I did, I had a very clear sensation that this was exactly what I was supposed to spend my life doing. I carried on an and began to have the nagging feeling that something was missing… it wasn’t until I almost passed out that I realised that I had forgotten to breathe because I was concentrating so intensely. This can still happen to me sometimes. (Both the sense of purpose and the forgetting to breathe while drawing.) When I look at a nude, particularly a good nude painting, it generates a subtle, primordial sense of relaxation in me: the relief of a deep part of me being reminded that under the clothes and schedules and cultural intricacies, we are these beautiful, weird, eating, sleeping, shitting, fucking, fragile animal flesh machines.”