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Walking Sketches

With a new commute in 2019, Sarah Elizabeth Beaumont began a series of pen-and-ink drawings on layered papers (often whilst walking) depicting the underground at rush hour, unaware that she was cataloguing crowds that would soon vanish due to covid-19, leaving London deserted and quiet.

The process of rapid sketching of moving subjects, combined with the motion of the artist working on paper that itself is unstable and not resting on a solid surface, results in a fluid portrayal of transient people in movement.

Monument Platform

pen and ink on paper

Monument Interchange I

pen and ink on paper

Hendon Central

pen and ink on paper

Monument Interchange II

pen and ink on paper

Interchange I

pen and ink on paper

Bank

pen and ink on paper

District Line

pen and ink on paper

West Ham

pen and ink on paper

Swiss Cottage

pen and ink on paper

Bank Interchange I

pen and ink on paper

Monument

pen and ink on paper

Camden Town

pen and ink on paper

Upton Park

pen and ink on paper

Bank Interchange II

pen and ink on paper

Aldgate East I

pen and ink on paper

Aldgate East II

pen and ink on paper

Bank Interchange III

pen and ink on paper

Warren Street

pen and ink on paper