Norma Frederika Hollmeyer

Norma Fredericka Hollmeyer

Conté on toned paper

This is perhaps the earliest piece on the website. My beloved grandmother was 96 when she passed in 1985. I was moved to draw a portrait of her in her youth, from a tiny, old photograph. It was my way of spending some time with her, getting to know a part of her that was lost to me in time.