I took a set of 20 pieces of hand-made Khadi paper, size A5, to my artist residency in Germany earlier this month and after making over a hundred drawings on a very large piece of paper (see here) I switched from a big studio in a barn to a tiny ancient stable to work small. I had used 4 pieces of the Khadi paper before I came to the Atelierhof Werenzhaim, I decided to use the remaining 16 to draw from my imagination with twigs dipped in ink. I drew figures singly, mostly on their own but in one or two it seemed right to add something resembling a landscape, like the figure (above) on the left. Those marks might be trees, or stags, or …..
The first four Khadi images are below, drawn in Berlin and Dresden before I started my residency at Atelierhof Werenzhaim.
I went to the 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 mostly at the Atelierhof Werenzhaim, an artist community founded in 1996 by artists from East and West Germany in a 14th century former feudal tavern estate.
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