Char Ketton (b. 1990, Nottingham, UK) is a UK-based artist working across drawing and painting. Her work centres on the changing relationship between the body and time, tracing cycles of continuity and change through mark making, surface and form.

Working through slow, material processes, she creates drawings, reliefs and paintings that respond to bodily experience, repetition, aging and cyclical change. Through sustained observation, her work returns to experiences of womanhood, motherhood and the shifting rhythms of the body across a lifetime. Layered surfaces and gradual processes of making allow form to emerge slowly through repetition and attention.

Her ongoing drawing project, Cycle Drawings, is structured around the menstrual cycle and acts as a daily practice of listening inward. Working in graphite and pencil on handmade paper, she creates drawings in response to internal bodily states, allowing sensation, pressure and rhythm to guide the marks. Conceived as a lifelong project, the drawings accumulate as an ongoing archive of embodied experience, tracing both continuity and change as the body ages.

Originally trained in Fine Art, she later studied Fashion Design, illustrating prints, footwear and accessories for fashion houses. This background continues to inform her sensitivity to line and surface, which remains central to her work.

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