Ruth gave us experimental drawing workshops which offered us an insight into different ways of looking at subject matter and including a sensory and haptic response which I found extremely interesting. The exercises included drawing objects from memory, continuous line, scribble and drawing blind all of which I explored in my processing ideas book. She also gave us a list of artists who have made different interpretations of line drawing such as Monika Grzymala, Eva Hessa and Iwona Blazwick, Claude Heath and Tamarine Norwood. It helped me with my own drawings and has given me ideas for my project, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks. Through my drawings, I am focusing on hands and their haptic qualities. Haptic in the sense of sensory perception.

Ruth also gave us a talk on her own work which included pictures from her exhibition.These included ‘Walk Round a Hill’. Consisted of 11 tracks round Marston Hill. Package – a box with games inside. Volume of Imagination – a box. Untitled – 100 magazines pulped and arranged in rolls on the floor. She is very interested in String Wrapping and has wrapped various and many objects including a mop, strings and all

and a sewing machine – currently showing at Chenderick School in Middleton Cheyne.