Etc. Artist Talk: Charmaine Watkiss

Join the online talk with THIS LINK

 For this month’s Etc Artist Talk, Draw’s Head Tutor Jake Spicer will be talking with artist Charmaine Watkiss.  The event is free and everybody is welcome, so please feel free to share this link as widely as you would like. 
 

About Charmaine Watkiss 

Charmaine Watkiss RWA is a British artist whose practice investigates the botanical legacy of the Caribbean and tracing the lineage to Africa. She is particularly interested in healing traditions handed down through the matrilineal line. Charmaine constructs narrative responses to material found in public archives – her compositions of women use her own likeness as a way of enacting what she calls ‘memory stories’, channelling a multitude of strong female archetypes in order to inform her works on paper, some as large as life sized. 

Charmaine Watkiss completed her MA in Drawing at Wimbledon College of Art in 2018, and her work is held in private and public collections including The British Museum, London; The Wellcome Collection, London; The Government Art Collection, London; Cartwright Hall Museum, Bradford; Abbott Hall Museum, Kendall; The Holburne Museum, Bath; The Lincoln Museum, Lincoln & Nasher Museum at Duke University, Durham NC USA.   

 
Charmaine is currently showing work as part of Artists First at the National Portrait Gallery, London until August 2026, and Plant Dreaming at Leeds Art Gallery until 19th April 2026. 

Above artwork: The Warriors Way - recalling the lost legacies 2022, Charmaine Watkiss

How to join

If you'd like to join the online talk via Zoom you just need to click the link above on the day of the talk - your image will not be visible on screen and you will be able to type questions for our guest artist.  

Past Etc. talks

You can find all of our past interviews on our YouTube channel HERE. Thank you to our Patreon supporters for providing the support and funding for these free talks! 

Supporting the sessions 

Draw's Etc. programme of artist talks are free to attend and are funded by the Draw Patreon, with the artists paid for taking part. If you enjoy these talks, and would like to support them to continue, why not become a supporter by signing up to the Draw Patreon from just £4+VAT per month.  You’ll get the in-person concessionary rate, plus Patreons get tiered access to a wealth of resources including our extensive artist’s photo reference library, live online life drawing & portrait drawing classes, online recorded courses and much more.