What a pleasure to be the final artist for DRAW!, a project which has inspired so many people to create. The theme I’ve chosen, “memories”, invites participants to reflect on their pasts, using drawing to remind us of joyous moments in our lives, or perhaps as a way of processing, healing, or repair, or even as a point of departure where looking back might encourage an exploration of alternative futures. Or we could think of memory as entirely process-based, where you just set yourself some time to let your pencil go for a journey, and the marks on the page become the memory-making.

Drawing is intimate, it is a powerful way to bring stories and feelings to life, allowing us to release or visualise what may otherwise be unseen.