Gull Rock

Lobe is a sculptor whose work is inspired by nature. In the 1970s he began to create sculptures of rocks made out of aluminum, reviving the repoussé technique of hammered metal. This sheet belongs to a group of drawings Lobe made in 1980 at Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia. "I rowed out to Gull Island," he said. "It was about being alone and focusing, in conflict with the rising waves and tide." While his approach recalls Chinese landscape painting, the resulting image also resembles the hammered surfaces of Lobe's sculptures. He said, "I sought to make marks, not lines, like hammer marks as if I was literally touching what I saw."