Working Small

During my artist residency in Germany a couple of weeks ago (is it that long already?) I made over a hundred drawings on a very large piece of paper (see here) and with a couple of days to go before coming home, I retreated to the tiny studio space in an ancient stable and worked on very small (A5) pieces of Khadi paper. I carried on drawing from my imagination with twigs dipped in ink, but focused on placing a single figure on each sheet, in isolation, rather than grouped together as they had been on the big sheet.

I was recently in Germany on an artist residency with four other Welsh women artists, Chris Bird-Jones, Sarah Hopkins , Rhiannon Rees  and Rhian Haf. We have been supported by 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 were at the Atelier-Werenzhain, founded in 1996 by artists from East and West Germany, in a 14th century former feudal tavern estate.