I don’t know how many little figures I drew on the big piece of paper during my recent residency in Germany, I haven’t counted them yet. They’re tucked away in a tube and I haven’t unwrapped them since I got home. Getting them home, now there’s a story! There’s probably more than a hundred and I’m enjoying picking out little groups, or pairs, to play with. I drew this couple originally in black ink with a twig, then I scratched into the wet ink with the narrow end of a bamboo pen to make the scribbly marks. In Adobe Photoshop, I cropped these 2 from a larger picture, inverted the image then pushed it into one of the colour combos in Gradient Map. I think they’ve gone from sombre to joyous.
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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