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Art by Olivia Kemp

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Olivia Kemp

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Olivia Kemp’s Enormous Pen Drawings

Olivia Kemp’s massive drawings, mostly rendered in pen, contain a preposterous amount of detail. Her work often contains historical structures enveloped by the natural world. The drawings can take months at a time to complete.

“I draw in order to make sense of landscape but also to construct and remodel it,” the artist says. “I build worlds and imaginary places that grow out of a need to interpret the sites that I have known, expanding and developing them across a page. This encompasses everything, from the visions of a grand landscape right down to the details of the land, the plants and creatures that may inhabit it.” The artist’s education includes time at Winchester School of Art, Wimbledon College of Art, and the Royal Drawing School. She’s had residencies in Scotland, Italy, Spain, Norway, and elsewhere.

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ARTIST OLIVIA KEMP CREATES THE MOST DETAILED PEN AND INK LANDSCAPE DRAWINGS

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Archipelago, 2016 by Olivia Kemp (b. 1990)

Ink on paper 45 3/10 × 76 4/5 in; 115 × 195 cm

"I think maybe one of the hardest things is being able to switch off. Going home and getting on with cooking dinner and winding down is really difficult. I’ll have photos on my phone of what I’m working on and I find it really hard not keep looking at them. I think in some ways I have to be obsessed with it in order to draw it but that has its down sides too and you can lose sleep over the most inconsequential things." ― O K