Your artwork may be telling a
clearer story than you realize.
Many artists sense that something connects their work but struggle to explain what it is.
Reading the Work helps identify the recurring themes, structures, relationships, and visual decisions that already exist across your artwork.
The goal is not critique. The goal is greater recognition.
Developed through years of artistic practice, the creation of more than 800 drawings, collection analysis, and volunteer artist readings.
An excerpt from a Pattern Discovery Reading
"Although the artworks explored different subjects, recurring interests in
containment, repetition, and environmental relationships appeared across
the work, suggesting an emerging direction already beginning to form"
Rather than interpreting a single artwork,
Reading the Work looks across multiple works
to identify what consistently appears.
From a Pattern Discovery Reading — 7 works submitted across drawing and mixed media
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WHAT YOU'll RECEIVE
A written PDF Reading
Pattern observations
Connections across submitted works
Emerging directions
Language for describing your practice
WHY ARTIST CHOOSE PATTERN DISCOVERY
Recognise recurring patterns
Build stronger artist statements
Understand collections rather than individual artworks
Greater confidence
Clearer artistic direction
How A Reading Works
Submit between five and ten artworks. They may be a first group of pieces, a developing collection, or work gathered over several years.
Step 01
Submit your work
Send between five and ten artworks.
Any medium.
No finished practice required.
Step 02
The work is observed together
Rather than individual critique, the reading looks across all submitted pieces for what consistently emerges.
Step 03
What keeps appearing becomes visible
As observations accumulate, recurring themes, structures, relationships, and ways of making become easier to recognise. Connections that individual artworks cannot reveal begin to emerge.
Step 04
Written reading delivered
You receive a PDF bringing together everything observed across your submitted work.
What Artists reported
Language
Clearer language to
describe their own work
and practice
Statements
A more grounded foundation
for artist statement
development
Recognition
Stronger pattern recognition
across their developing
body of work
Visibility
Patterns that had been
present became visible and
easier to articulate
Coherence
Greater collection coherence
and improved confidence in
direction
Confidence
Increased confidence in
the direction their practice
was already taking
Start with Pattern Discovery Reading
$50 USD · Delivered as a written PDF
Your Pattern Discovery Reading includes:
✓ Recognition of recurring patterns
✓ Connections across submitted artworks
✓ Emerging directions
✓ Written PDF Reading
✓ Language to describe your work
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