According to the website Artland Magazine:
Drawing was … an essential part of Uglow’s process; in fact, it has been said that it lies at the very heart of his artistic process. In Uglow’s own words: “Drawing is the most immediate way of making your ideas, sensations, and information explicit.” Uglow’s drawings are compilations of marks, dashes and dots. Some of his drawings would start with an idea, while others were more a process of uncovering. For Uglow, drawing helped him to discover the details, the weight, and the shape of a body or object. Often, his drawings were exploratory studies intended “to see what a form is doing.”
Uglow was famous for incorporating geometry and precise calculation into his painting, intentionally leaving marks, odd crosses, and other indications of his preparation of the permanent ground.
