The artwork I did during my recent German residency was in black ink onto white paper, very stark, expressionist. Now that I’m back home, away from the Gothic forests and wolves, I’m playing around with colour (Adobe Photoshop Gradient Map). The images are so different. Yeah I know that’s stating the obvious, but adding colour changes the emotional impact, makes the figures fun and decorative.
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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