DRAWING

‘Children draw from an early age if they are given the opportunity. Drawing emerges alongside verbal language. It is an active exploring process that enables the child to experience and understand a wide variety of perceptions, thoughts and feelings. At the earliest stages it may be better to think of “mark-making” rather than drawing. Drawing traces the child’s engagement with experimenting, investigating, remembering or imagining. A key thing to remember is that a drawing is evidence of both a child’s struggle to understand and to communicate.’

By:
Eileen Adams, Drawing Power-The Campaign for Drawing, 2002