Etc. artist talk: Charmaine Watkiss

In this artist talk, recorded from a live Zoom on the 20th March 2026, Jake Spicer speaks to artist Charmaine Watkiss about the development of her artistic practice. About Draw & Etc. Draw running online drawing classes and in-person sessions in the UK. We believe that good quality drawing education should be accessible to everybody and usually run drop-in, short-term and long-term courses from our Brighton studio. Our long running Etc. programme is intended to complement our practical workshops with artists’ talks and panel discussions on the themes of drawing, the arts and the body. We run online life drawing and portait drawing classes through our Patreon, which also helps us to fund these online videos. Support Draw on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/DrawBrighton/ Follow Draw on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/draw_brighton/ About Charmaine Watkiss Charmaine Watkiss RWA is a British artist whose practice investigates the botanical legacy of the Caribbean. She is particularly interested in healing traditions handed down through the matrilineal line, her work reflects this through constructed narratives around women. She accesses public archives which serve as a material from which she constructs narrative responses. Her compositions of women all use her own likeness as a way of enacting what she calls ‘memory stories’, channeling a multitude of strong female archetypes in order to inform her works on paper, some as large as life sized. Her work is held in private and public collections including: The British Museum, London UK; The Wellcome Collection, London UK; The Government Art Collection, London UK; Cartwright Hall Museum, Bradford UK; Abbott Hall Museum, Kendall UK; The Holburne Museum, Bath; The Lincoln Museum, Lincoln and Nasher Museum at Duke University, Durham NC USA, Katrin Bellinger collection. Follow Charmaine Watkiss on Instagram here:   / mswatkiss   See Charmaine Watkiss's website here: https://charmainewatkiss.com/