Description: Rick Ball is a highly-regarded expressionist artist. He is currently residing in Broken Hill, Australia.
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When I was in Year 4 at school, the class was given a project to do on Britain. I remember sitting at an old timber desk with ink well, mapping pen in hand and a Robinson Atlas open at the British Isles.
It was the beginning of lunch time, but I was engrossed in this pen and the dark ink as I began my squiggly line up the coast from London. Eyes darted like the needle of a sewing machine between the atlas and the blank page as I climbed up the twisted coast of England towards Scotland… noting every tributary and little island along the way.
After a while, it dawned on me that I could not guess the line of the coast. I was in awe. The shape of the British Isles was unpredictable and wild. I became enchanted and entered into this wild dance of coastline.