Cally Trench has been drawing her hands every day since 5th August 2023. In the first year of the project (2023-24), she drew her hands - in ink, life-size from life, using both hands - for exactly one hour. In the second year of the project (2024-25), the time she allowed herself each day was reduced to 45 minutes. Currently, in this third year of the project, she is allowing herself exactly 30 minutes.

The drawings are ink on watercolour paper (Fabriano Studio Satin hotpress 300gsm), 23 x 31 cm.

Cally Trench is continuing her project of drawing her hands every day. In 2025-2026, she is drawing her own hands, life-size from life, using both hands, and drawing each day for exactly 30 minutes.

Cally posts each Monday's drawing on this website here:
Left Hand Right Hand III and also on her Instagram account @callytrench

The project started on Tuesday 5th August 2025 and will end on Tuesday 4th August 2026.

In 2024-2025, Cally Trench drew her own hands, life-size from life, using both hands, and drawing each day for exactly 45 minutes. The project started on Monday 5th August 2024 and ended on Monday 4th August 2025.

Cally posted each Sunday's drawing on this website here:
Left Hand Right Hand II

and also on her Instagram account @callytrench

Left Hand, Right Hand:
A year of drawing my hands, 2023-24
A project in parallel with Tineke Bruijnzeels

Cally Trench drew her own hands, life-size from life, using both hands, and drawing each day for exactly one hour. The project started on Saturday 5th August 2023 and ended 366 days later on Sunday 4th August 2024.

Tineke Bruijnzeels's project was One more line a day. One line on day 1, two on day 2, three hundred and sixty-six on day 366. With anything on any material of 15 x 15 cm.

Cally also posted one drawing once a week on her Instagram account @callytrench

Cally wrote: Drawing my hands every day rapidly became part of my routine. The rules that I set myself meant that I didn't have to think about what to draw or the medium: ink (Rotring Tikky Graphic 0.1 pen) on watercolour paper (Fabriano Studio Satin hotpress 300gsm), 23 x 31 cm. I only had to decide the position of my hands, which always moved on slightly from the previous day's drawing, with the aim of depicting a series of commonplace movements - and to allow, ultimately, for the creation of an animation film.

Knowing that Tineke was working on her project - One more line a day - gave me companionship. While our two projects were entirely separate and individual, the knowledge that someone else was on a parallel journey provided support and encouragement.

A consecutive pair of the drawings (numbers 177 and 178) were exhibited, framed together in one frame, in the 2024 Art Sauce members' exhibition at Common Ground, Oxford.

Twelve of the drawings were exhibited, framed in pairs, in Twofold Quintet at the Courtyard Gallery, Ballroom Arts, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, over the weekend of Friday 1st - Sunday 3rd November 2024. The drawings shown were numbers 089 and 090; 189 and 190; 206 and 207; 221 and 222; 326 and 327; and 334 and 335.

Six of the drawings were exhibited, framed in pairs, in A Question of Drawing, at Ilkon (Ilkeston Contemporary Arts), Derbyshire, 23rd January - 8th February 2025. The drawings shown were numbers 049 and 050; 067 and 068; and 089 and 090. Each framed pair of drawings was shown next to the pair of drawings of the same number (and date) from the following year: 049/415 and 050/416; 067/433 and 068/434; and 089/455 and 090/456.

A film, A Year of Hands, is a one-minute animation film created from the 366 drawings: A Year of Hands