5. Rebecca Child, Courtyard
“My main career was as an architect, the training and practice influencing my current work, seeing,
remembering and imagining places. My work starts with the world around me – a place, a collection of
postcards with emotional significance, a jug of tulips. Drawing is the start and the investigation, whether
the intention is to make a print or the drawing is the final outcome. I work quickly in charcoal, to change
and re-change the drawing, to show the marks which become part of the story. I have been making
drawings in different rooms in Poltimore over a few weeks.”