Charles Avery, artist: 'I was kicked out of Central St Martins because I wanted to draw and draw' Karen Wright meets the artist at his studio in a new low-rise building in Homerton, east London ...

Just to cite an example: the drawing entitled The port of Onomatopoeia is 5 meters wide. In this work of Avery a crowd of travellers, tourists and sailors mingles with shifty creatures, monstrous ...

Avery “always had an urge to draw, and a taste for the epic project”. “I look at people who draw: Schiele, Daumier, Redon, Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural drawings, New Yorker cartoons ...