DRAWING REINTERPRETED

I’ve just begun to explore a new drawing project. Artist Lisa Ghiggini has invited artists from a range of disciplines to participate in a collaboration, Drawing Reinterpreted, during 2023 and 2024. She invited us through an open call to contribute a drawing, and to reinterpret one of the other randomly allocated, initially anonymous, participating artist’s drawings.

The drawing that I’ve been allocated, by Alice Kettle

The drawing above, by textile artist Alice Kettle, is the one that I’ve been allocated. I’ve tried to resist looking at Alice’s other work until I’ve sketched out some thoughts of my own.

My initial reaction was to tap into the images that it conjured in my own imagination, and to begin to try to articulate those visually.

Immediately, I related it to a handmade 1950s glass paperweight that I inherited from my granny as a child. Not only do I love it as an object, it brings me a sense of comfort, childhood, family. Like Alice’s drawing, it seems to hold another world of marks, shapes and colour suspended in its form.

The 1950s glass paperweight that once belonged to my granny

I’ve begun to make some preliminary drawings that take inspiration from the colour and the cocooned, cloud-like form of Alice’s drawing, thinking also about family and childhood memories.

An early stage coloured pencil sketch, based on daughter Kate reading in bed.