Finally at the Atelier Werzenhaim, idyllic setting, sunny but not too hot. I settled in and let go, experimenting with Derwent Inktense blocks onto Khadi 320gsm paper. I held a thought but didn’t try to illustrate it. I thought of how events echo down generations. I grew up with grandparents who had lived through World War 1, and parents who experienced World War 2. I grew up during the Cold War and the ever-present threat of nuclear destruction. These huge events ripple through the years and I have no doubt that we are still experiencing their effects. I didn’t want to do an illustration of this thought, I wanted to focus on it, play with the materials and see what comes out. An expression of feeling. Let’s see where it takes me.
I’m in Germany on an artist residency with three other Welsh women artists, Chris Bird-Jones, Sarah Hopkins and Rhiannon Rees with support from Wales Arts International. We are all members of AGOR Abertawe, set up to facilitate creative activity between women artists in Swansea / South Wales, and the Brandenburg area.
We’re at the Atelier-Werenzhain, founded in 1996 by artists from East and West Germany, in a 14th century former feudal tavern estate..
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