Popular demand (believe it or not!) made me do it: Over the course of the next few days I'm going to post the travel drawings and prints of the last few years. Today starts with my personal book of genesis, the ink drawings from 2016's Paris – Rome tour. Next in the queue are the etchings designed after these drawings, the documentation of the recent short journey eastwards and finally the experiments from last summer in France. I'll keep the technical notes about which I'm usually rambling too much to a minimum.

If any of these drawings depict a place or a scene of great significance, it's by pure chance: Generally, their choice has been dictated by where we could sit down, in the dry, with no pressing business ahead of us. Hence long gaps, no Paris nor Rome (but why did I not draw the pope!?), plenty of random countryside locations – after two months I had 18 canonical drawings in my bag, and about half a year later two more intricate remakes joined the set.

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