| Description | This collection of annotated drawings by Hilda Margaret Whitaker née Hodge has been curated and ordered into this modern folder by her daughter. The drawings and annotations, with 2 exceptions, represent observations made by the artist as she travelled around Bali and South East Asia in 1989 and are primarily rendered in ink and pencil on loose sheets mounted on cartridge paper: 1. Sketches in ink made at the Bali Water Temples; 2. Figurative sketches in ink with annotations, Bali Water Temples; 3. Annotated figures in ink at the Bali Water Temples; 4. Pencil sketch of Puja flower sellers, Bali; 5. Pencil studies: Watching People; 6. Temple figures, in pencil, Bali; Pencil sketches of heads and buildings; 7. Watercolour sketches of buildings, the top piece in watercolour and pencil and the lower piece in watercolour and ink; 8. Lakeside Farm rendered in pastels and pencil and below, pencil sketch of 2 buffalo; 9. Pencil sketches of the Temple Buffalo ceremony; 10. Ink sketches of countryside animals and artisans; 11. Pencil and pastel sketches of Lake Toba; 12.Figures drawn in pencil, Huta Bolon Lake Toba; 13. Pencil drawings featuring scenes of Parapat street vendors; 14. Sketches of temple figures in pencil; 15. Figures from a television music programme, drawn in pencil; 16. Photocopy of sketches by Margaret Whitaker depicting figures and scenes at the Chinese State Circus, Taunton, Somerset in about 2007, accompanied by handwritten notes provided by Margaret's daughter; 17. Wood block print, being the front page of an undefined edition of the Christmas card, 1957, with change of address details for January 1958 on the reverse - significant as Margaret was leaving the Malayan Teachers' Training College to move to Uganda; 18. Group of 4 colour photographs, being reference studies of flowers, butterflies and paddy fields [n.d.]. |