Having worked across an array of art forms since the early 1980s, Judy Watson continues to reserve a special respect for drawing—putting pencil to paper, she says, involves an exchange where something vital travels between artist and artwork. A powerful charge is transmitted.
One of the joys of looking back on her two-dimensional works is the recollections they evoke. “It is like a body memory,” says Watson. “I remember—not every time, but a lot of the time—where I was, what it smelt like, what was around me,
