Hildegarda, 2021

Charcoal, pastel, coffee & tumeric on paper15x41cm

Series of 16, 28x38cm

Series of 38, 15x41cm

I draw at night and a few years back the music of Hildegard of Bingen became my default nourishment and anchor. On later realising her name roughly translates to ‘battle guard’, I adopted Hildegarda as an umbrella title. Increasingly, drawing feels like an act of self-preservation in the wash, if not tsunami, of what life presents. As a title, it also links with what inevitably surfaces from always random beginnings - elevated part-architectural perches butted up against what seems to be a swirling, disapproving surge of nature.