Cynthia Barlow Marrs SGFA

Portfolio: The Hand Drawn Series

People in the shops of Windsor and Eton whose work is done by hand

Hand Drawn is an ongoing series about the things we make and do for one another, by hand, in the shops of Windsor and Eton.

 

Fewer and fewer local businesses are based on goods or services made by or carried out by hand on the premises. So I'm illustrating the hands of the florist, the dentist, the deli owner, the waitress, the optometrist, the fishmonger and others, capturing a single gesture as each person performs a service that I pay for: that’s my scalp under Georgia’s scissors, the beef that Steve the butcher is slicing went into the stew pot at home, and the cat that Dr Tim is pilling is my own.