Interieur met een oude vrouw en drie kinderen c. 1928 - 1941

This drawing by Miep de Feijter shows an old woman surrounded by three children, all rendered in black ink. You can almost feel the artist’s hand moving across the paper, sketching out the scene with an economy of lines. I imagine de Feijter sitting, perhaps observing a similar scene in her own life. What stories did she want to tell? What moments did she want to capture? The lines are so descriptive, yet they leave so much to the imagination, too. The details in the folds of the woman’s dress and the striped armchair invite us to linger. De Feijter uses simple lines to create so much texture and depth. It reminds me of other artists who worked with ink – cartoonists, illustrators, and printmakers. There’s a conversation happening across time and space, with each artist building on the ideas of those who came before. This drawing, with its intimate scene and simple lines, invites us to join that conversation.