Artist: Painter Illustrator Designer
"Just as Lola finds her sounds through visual imagery, I found it a harmonious balance to find imagery through sound. I started to visualize a place from my own imagination brought on by the movement and tones of her music and, almost by reflex, I began to sketch in the same movement. I experimented with many mediums to help familiarize every tone, every phrase from the compositions, like getting to know a new friend.
Lola's Piano ©
The selected 12 drawings for this exhibition comes from a collection of 100 drawings all produced not in a studio, but on trains and planes, in between destinations and in between countries. Always in transience: I'd meditate on my surroundings and my imagination - with Lola's piano music in my headphones and a sketchbook in my hands.
My choice to work on a series of black and white drawings, without colour, is of vital importance. It is a skeleton, a structure of understanding, like notations on the staff lines. Yet, in some way, the absence of colour in these drawings surprisingly highlights rich colours in Lola's music.
My line work is a continuum, as though there is no beginning and no end but an evolving sound. Just as I find with Lola Perrin's music; even when the music stops I still hear the sounds continue on like a natural pulse." (John Kennedy February '07, Sydney)
Listening to Lola ©
"Just as Lola finds her sounds through visual imagery, I found it a harmonious balance to find imagery through sound."
John Kennedy, Feb 2006