Duncan Bullen, based in Rhossili, South Wales, is a British artist known for his meditative, understated approach to drawing. His work explores the subtle interaction of mark-making, repetition, geometries and tonal variation, using pencil on paper to create quiet, contemplative compositions that hover at the edge of perception and test visual liminality. Bullen’s art is realised through methodical processes and deliberate calculation, in which he dwells close to and moves slowly across the drawing surface, exploring and communicating pictorial space through an intimate relationship between hand and eye, mind and body, resulting in a heightened sense of time taken and slow, durational processes, reflecting an interest in the experiential aspects of the optical and tactile in making and perceiving. It is shaped by qualities of stillness and silence and by observations of natural phenomena such as ripples in still water or the interplay of light and shadow.