I carried on with my little repetitive drawings on very large paper. It’s funny, last time I came to Germany I was inspired when I got back home to do huge drawings and now I’m in Germany working on huge paper again. I wonder why?
Today I used the other end of the bamboo dip pen. It has a square blunt nib, quite big and it gave me a completely different effect to yesterday’s drawings. Some years ago, I did a residency in Boise, Idaho, USA and visited some ancient petroglyphs, small carvings on boulders. They are similar to these drawings but I had no thought of them when I was doing them, they are simply the product of the materials.
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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