Drawing for me is the first port of call for the expression of an idea. I use it in two ways, the roughest setting out and examination of an idea or as a finished work worthy of exhibition. I tend to make drawings on a theme in batches. Cutting a small pile of paper to…

These drawings in ink on paper were produced as a second response (the first was many years earlier in 1980 in pencil and gouache), now with Bernard Mitchell, to a translation by Malcolm Parr of Marcel Schwob’s version of The Children’s Crusade. These drawings formed the starting point for prompting the Old Stile Press to…

Image: Janette My first exhibition in 1980 took place four years after graduating at Swansea Arts Workshop (now Mission Gallery). This was a gallery and studio spaces organised by the Swansea Branch of the Association of Artists and Designers in Wales. It was an artist run venture and I was one of the younger members…