Cally Trench & Tineke Bruijnzeels:
2 x 366 Drawings
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From August 2003 to August 2004, Cally Trench, an English artist living in Buckinghamshire, and Tineke Bruijnzeels, a Dutch artist living in France, each made an observational drawing every day, and sent the drawings to each other in weekly batches of seven.
The drawings, on vertical-format A6 paper (about 10 x 15 cm), were in all kinds of drawing medium - including pencil, ink, crayon, pastels, charcoal, and oil pastels.
SOME OF CALLY'S DRAWINGS
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SOME OF TINEKE'S DRAWINGS
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The drawings are all observational, and both artists found that they frequently returned to the same subjects. Cally often drew her children asleep at night, and the windows and bookcases in her house. Tineke made many drawings of the mountainous landscape around her home, her children doing their homework, her cats, and cardboard boxes.
The drawings - 366 from each artist - act as a diary of the year. They are also a kind of conversation between the two artists. Receiving a batch of drawings once a week was both motivating and inspiring.
Cally and Tineke's drawings were exhibited in April 2005 at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, High Wycombe.
The artists hope to make a new set of daily drawings in 2013-2014, and maybe 2023-24.