In this exhibition, artist and illustrator Jacob Charlesworth(1992-) BA (Hons) Illustration, and a growing practitioner who has participated in and helped organise international workshops— presents selected samples from his ongoing visual diaries.

These works function as intimate cartographies of feeling, charting the shifting terrains of his inner world with clarity, precision, and emotional sensitivity.

Working at the intersection of drawing and psychology, he treats drawing as a form of poetic notation through which thoughts, conversations, and shifting psychological states are recorded and reimagined.

A central component of his recent exploration is Neurographica, a mindful drawing technique that transforms emotional tension into new visual pathways. Each line functions as a conduit for redirecting energy, allowing undefined or elusive elements of the subconscious to assume gentle, recognisable form.

His practice sits between the process-driven, meditative mark-making of Agnes Martin, where repeated lines operate as a disciplined form of emotional attunement rather than a pursuit of finished form.

He also draws on the imaginative, narrative-led illustration of Chris Riddell, reflected in Jacob’s affinity for expressive line, characterful invention, and stories of acceptance embodied by figures who feel slightly out of place yet profoundly resonant.

For Jacob, meaning resides not in the finished image but in the embodied moment of pen or pencil touching paper—an immediate, clarifying gesture through which emotional material can settle, shift, and be understood anew.

As part of his residency, Jacob is being supported to develop these early investigations into the beginnings of a bespoke practitioner practice, experimenting with how process-led methodologies might shape his emerging visual and conceptual identity.

Jacob’s art and therapeutic process are closely interwoven. Each mark acts as a mindful acknowledgement of the more turbulent aspects of inner life. His drawings reveal how emotions, once given form, can reorganise, disperse, or find coherence—how quiet focus can restore balance.

Through Neurographica, emotional noise becomes visual flow, transforming private turbulence into something shared, resonant, and quietly redemptive.