Interior design lecturer, Trevor Flynn, spoke about returning back to the basics and paying close attention to how drawing can strengthen all work; especially architecture. His talk was described as one that “illustrates the workings of visual analogies; the kind of suggestive magic of using one thing to represent another, and demonstrates ways that the act of drawing can trick the mind into letting down barriers that rational thinking put in our way.” Trevor Flynn currently teaches life drawing in Media Studies at the Architectural Association and is an Associate Lecturer at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design. He also teaches Total Drawing and Portfolio Sketchbook workshops at St. Martins. Along with his teaching, Flynn is a creative consultant for organizations she as The National Advertising Benevolent Society, The British Museum and The Victoria and Albert Museum.
During his lecture, Flynn brought up several valid points when looking and studying drawings by established artists. He spoke extensively about how when draftsman pay close attention to parts of the natural world they will realize how much you can gain from the natural forms and structures to then incorporate them into drawings and architecture. He showed quite stunning before and after pictures from several different architects. One was a progress drawing of a large architecturally sound airport that was being built. Then he showed the slide with the finish product and how the armature within the airport strongly resembled lines and angles in this picture he had of a leaf. It was very interesting to see him make that correlation and it helped me better understand how he is efficient and produces such great drawings in his work.
At the very end of his lecture he made a seemingly profound statement about why he does what he does and why he feels that having a solid drawing basis one can create very strong and sound work. “Use drawing as a way of visual interrogation, not merely just copying something you see.” I enjoyed this statement because it put into words exactly what each artist does every day. We study and examine and interrogate things that are visually strikingly pleasant and I felt good that I could make a correlation to my work from an artist who works in completely different media and has a completely different background and technique.
“I am convinced that we should not be defined narrowly as people by what we do for a living. What we do for a living can only enable us to develop satisfactorily as people if the culture at work permits.” Trevor Flynn
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