Field Note portrait

Fort Worth, TX

Field Note

Rowan Ellis draws under the moniker Field Note, creating measured graphite works that sit between landscape study and notation. Ellis often begins outside with small observational sketches, then enlarges them in the studio until line, smudge, and erasure become a weather system of their own.

Drawing is where I can think at the speed of looking. The finished works keep that searching quality instead of trying to smooth it away.