365 Drawings 365 Dessins

A project by Cally Trench and Tineke Bruijnzeels

Calendar and guest artists

Reading: Exhibition and open day

Anières: Exhibition and open day

Tineke Bruijnzeels: Drawing every day was sometimes a lifeline, sometimes an obligation, and most days enjoyable.

Cally Trench: Drawing the same thing every day for a week meant that I really had to look at it, to study it, to try to analyse it. Drawing became a way of thinking.

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Drawing by Cally Trench Drawing by Cally Trench Drawing by Cally Trench

Drawings by Cally Trench

Tineke Bruijnzeels: I loved drawing the same subject for a week, and sometimes regretted that I had to choose a different subject the next week. This year has shown me a new direction for my studio practice: I am fascinated by the movement of light and wind on water. Drawing with 52 artists has been inspiring and motivating. Cally has received all the drawings from the 51 guest artists, so I have only seen the selected three scans on the website. I am very much looking forward to seeing the actual drawings at the exhibition!

Cally Trench: Sometimes the drawings seemed to get less attractive as the week progressed, more analytical but less beautiful. I often returned to the same topic a week or two later: my hands and feet in particular. The guest artists added a whole layer of interest. Until their drawings arrived in the post I had no idea what to expect, and I was amazed by their beauty, ingenuity and intensity.

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Drawing by Tineke Bruijnzeels Drawing by Tineke Bruijnzeels Drawing by Tineke Bruijnzeels

Drawings by Tineke Bruijnzeels

From August 2013 to August 2014, Cally Trench, an English artist living in Buckinghamshire, and Tineke Bruijnzeels, a Dutch artist living in Switzerland each made a drawing every day, and sent the drawings to each other in weekly batches of seven. Ten years earlier, Cally (in Buckinghamshire) and Tineke (who was then living in France) did a similar project, from August 2003 to August 2004.

D'août 2013 à août 2014, Cally Trench, une artiste anglaise vivant au Buckinghamshire et Tineke Bruijnzeels, une artiste néerlandaise vivant en Suisse, ont chacune fait un dessin par jour et se les sont envoyées par lots hebdomadaires. Dix ans plus tôt, Cally (au Buckinghamshire) et Tineke (qui vivait alors en France) avaient fait un projet similaire, entre août 2003 à août 2004.

In 2013-2014, fifty-one guest artists joined in the project, each making drawings for one week. The guest artists followed the same rules as Cally and Tineke: one drawing a day for each of seven consecutive days, A6 vertical format, any drawing medium on any kind of paper, observational drawings, and the same subject/topic/theme/question for all seven drawings.

En 2013-2014, cinquante-et-un artistes invités ont rejoint ce projet, chacun a dessiné pendant une semaine. Les artistes invités ont suivi les mêmes règles que Cally et Tineke: un dessin par jour pendent une semaine, format A6 vertical, technique de dessin au choix sur tout type de papier, dessins d'observation, et un seul objet/sujet/thème/question pour tous les sept dessins.

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Drawing by Cally Trench Drawing by Cally Trench Drawing by Cally Trench
Drawing by Cally Trench Drawing by Cally Trench Drawing by Cally Trench

Drawings by Cally Trench

Guest artists/Les artistes invités: Nick Trench, Steve Perfect, Penny Matheson, Guy Tarrant, Rekha Sameer, Marco Calí, Sophie Loss, Jo Thomas, Valérie Mary, Ingrid Jensen, Eva Theytaz, Polly Binns, Brigitte Ritschard, Ann Piker, Ann Rapstoff, Roger Perkins, Nick Bodimeade, Neile Wright, Lydia Julien, Philip Lee, Jane Grisewood, Joan Skelton Smith, Kaliko, Anna Mitchell, Danielle Berthet, Pierre-Yves Freund, Neil Ferguson, Catherine Jacquet, Ann Harris, Linda Francis, Claire Deniau, Alex Dewart, Pierre Thorelle, Françoise Roueff, Judy Goldhill, John McDowall, Patrick Jeffs, Julia Rogers, Mary Yacoob, Silvia Ziranek, Tony Moody, June Kingsbury, Chris Mercier, Didier Merlin, Mariouh, Joanna Greenhill, Jean Davey Winter, Imogen Welch, Alan Franklin, Karin Janssen, and Camilla Maraschini.

For drawings from each week: Week one and subsequent weeks. Pour voir semaine un et les dessins ultérieurs.

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Drawing by Tineke Bruijnzeels

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Drawing by Tineke Bruijnzeels

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Drawings by Tineke Bruijnzeels


Website updated December 2023. Site mis à jour décembre 2023.

Tineke Bruijnzeels's website
Cally Trench's website