Small-format sketchbook with black cover labelled ‘pH Neutral Drawing Paper', circa 1985-1989

The last part of this book is blank, but the opening section contains a series of black fibre-tipped pen drawings, many noted as made in Chapel Street (Prahran); most of the drawings show heads, some in the doubled-line technique Arkley explored particularly in 1985, and others are of cacti; three drawings towards the end of the sequence, in lighter black/grey fibre-tipped pen, evidently date from later in Arkley’s career; one is signed and dated: HA 97.