1986 must have been a time when I was pushing myself and expanding my skills.  I loved drawing people especially dancers.  Mum was especially good at figure drawing and was highly critical of my attempts, pointing out incorrect proportions and clumsiness.  Back in primary school we were asked to draw matchstick men after learning about the artist L.S. Lowry.  I was terrible at it.  “How can anyone not be able to draw a matchstick man?” my mum would say in despair.

This was one of my many attempts to perfect the dancer’s form and was also possibly the first time I used an ink wash.  I’m not sure Mum particularly liked this, as I said before she was highly critical of my drawings of dancers, but I liked it and I still do.

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