I think of landscape as a container for unconscious preoccupations, my drawings as a barometer for an internal landscape, a symbol of the soul. I’m interested in the idea of atmosphere, narrative and place. Abruzzo, thinking of Dublin is part of a series about my sisters. Perhaps it asks the question: ‘Where do we come from, Where are we going’? but not literally, because images must allow room for interpretation and mystery. Abruzzo Cloud uses the seen to describe the unseen and place as a metaphor for the geography within. In both drawings, landscape does not concern naturalism, but a state of mind – like an empty stage without players or actors.
Anne Howeson’s work explores place, time and memory. She is a Jerwood Drawing Prize winner and was a tutor at the RCA London, promoting drawing as outcome and way of thinking.Her solo exhibition Remember Me, Guardian News and Media 2009, recorded architectural regeneration in King’s Cross, London. Present in the Past, Collyer Bristow, 2015, transformed digital fragments from the Museum of London’s prints and drawings archive, into drawings about mortality and time. Feet of Angels, Carey Blyth Gallery, 2023, used photographs from the Talbot Catalogue Raisonné in an ongoing series, looking at human identity, war, dispossession, self, mother, sisters – and water. Works in Public Collections include the Museum of London and the Guardian News and Media.
