Charcoal drawings

An evening stroll through the back streets of London with Caravaggio for company.

Charcoal drawings

I was initially captivated by the spectacle of school children caught up in the student riots of 2010. This was soon followed early in 2011 with the Stokes Croft riots in Bristol. Just a few months later, sparked by the death of Mark Duggan, London and much of the UK was in the grip of one of the greatest acts of civil disobedience seen since the Poll Tax riots.

I am endebted to my photojournalist friend David Hoffman, a hardened veteran of protest, who has captured many of the images from which I have worked.

Experiments in Fluorescent paint and Scotchlite® reflective fabric.

Assorted paintings on boards, canvases and walls.

Paintings - oil on board

Age Concern — Saatchi Gallery, London (2012)

In 2012, Sarson produced a body of drawings for the charity Age Concern, focusing on elderly residents in care. The work sought to highlight the experience of growing old in isolation, addressing the often overlooked reality of loneliness and social invisibility among older people without close family support.

The project was curated by Jon Cartwright and developed under the guidance and influence of the renowned French street artist C215. Since the completion of the project, all of the subjects depicted in the portraits have passed away, lending the series an added sense of poignancy and permanence as a record of lives otherwise at risk of being forgotten.