Dispatches from Marrakech

04.10.2018

A half-built concrete bridge on timber scaffolding with a wooden stair, above red earth under a hazy sky in Morocco

It’s been a while since we did one of these ‘dispatches’ article, but when Ekun from our Manchester shop told us he’d recently been to Morocco, we wanted to see what he’d been up to.

Not only did he get some cracking snaps, but he also managed to jot down some sketches of his trip, paint some pictures AND make a rug. A productive voyage, to say the least.

Read what he had to say on his trip, then scroll below for some tasteful imagery in all manner of mediums…

“In Morocco the walls are much better. This is one thing I learned whist wandering about the streets of Marrakech earlier this year. I went out there looking for shapes and words for my paintings and came back with ideas of making rugs.”

Close-up of a small terracotta cone set into a hole in a crumbling ochre plaster wall

Painting by Ekun of a cream angular shape, an olive and ochre curve and a mustard circle on a two-tone red ground

Looking up between towering orange rock walls of a narrow gorge to a strip of blue sky, the sun behind the rock

Painting by Ekun of a cream round-bellied vase on ochre and brown, a yellow and green arc above, signed ER 2017

Painting by Ekun of an outlined brown bowl, a hooked line and a pale yellow dome on mustard and cream, signed ER 2017

Painting by Ekun of a pear-like form in pale yellow and terracotta with two dark bars and an olive curve, signed ER 2017

Sketchbook pages of coloured pencil shapes and notes: they say look up, the sun god has bad eyes, do we need all of this

Chalk graffiti on a terracotta pink wall: La Kasbha with an arrow pointing left, stars and scribbled drawings

A twisting bare tree against a cobalt blue wall with ornate metal window grilles, aloes, cacti and a yellow pot

A shaft of sunlight across a narrow alley of ochre earth walls, with an orange door bearing a diamond motif

Sketchbook open on red cloth with coloured pencil drawings of stacked bowl shapes, beside three red Derwent pencils

Sketchbook pages of coloured pencil shapes and notes: spirit dance, sometimes you go back to go forward

Rippled desert sand dunes under a lilac sky, with an orange glow on the horizon and small tufts of grass in front

A cracked ochre earth wall with rough patches of white paint, rubble, a green sack and a plastic bottle at its foot

Ekun's rug hung from a wooden pole: cream and beige cloth with terracotta circles and braided olive and natural cords

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