Ontwerpen voor twee glas in loodramen met bloemornamenten after 1907

This drawing shows designs for two stained glass windows, with floral ornaments, made with pencil, pen and watercolour. The artist, whose name we don’t know, has marked out the grid of lead strips that will hold the coloured glass in place, dividing the surface into rectangular modules. The paper is a warm buff colour, and the palette is restrained. I love the tentative quality of the lines in this piece, the way it shows the artist figuring things out on the page. It's a working drawing, not a finished piece, and you can see all the corrections and adjustments. Look at the bottom panel, to the right and left are snaking lines of floral motifs, but they’re not identical. It's like the artist is playing with different ideas, seeing what works. I find this kind of asymmetry and casualness really appealing. There's something about the anonymous nature of this work that makes me think of Hilma af Klint, another artist working with floral motifs and stained glass patterns. Like Klint, this artist is exploring the spiritual potential of abstract forms, but in a more intimate and personal way. It’s a reminder that art is always a conversation, a way of seeing and thinking that’s passed down through generations.