Contemporary art Year 2

"I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it’s the parting that keeps..."

Mon, 16 May 2011 12:36:52 -0400

“I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it’s the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it’s been sold I actually still have it, just in another form.”

- Kit Williams

"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in..."

Sun, 15 May 2011 16:53:31 -0400

“Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale ‘til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

a few weeks ago i attended a visiting artists lecture by Rachel...

Sun, 15 May 2011 16:51:22 -0400

a few weeks ago i attended a visiting artists lecture by Rachel Goodyear, i absolutely loved her work, it has this very surreal, even uncomfortable feel to it.

these linear studies and limited use of colour remind me of my favourite artist David bray.

Rachel uses this continuity of a black mass within her work, this seems to take on the form of many different entities and feeling’s, in this particular piece the black mass seems to take on quite a ghostly form this gathering reminds me of a seance

Christopher Le Brun

Sun, 15 May 2011 16:41:39 -0400

Christopher Le Brun

Brunnhilde, Christopher Le Brun

Sun, 15 May 2011 16:36:41 -0400

Brunnhilde, Christopher Le Brun

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

Sun, 15 May 2011 16:33:42 -0400

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

- Henry Ward Beecher

year 3

Sun, 15 May 2011 16:30:08 -0400

i think that in year 3 i would like to work more with botanical drawings and perhaps construct a journal packed with all my studies this could be made up from text, images photographs ect.

i would also like to prehaps produce some quite detailed etchings and screen prints.

Here is a piece by Annie Patterson, i love how she combines her...

Sun, 15 May 2011 16:25:58 -0400

Here is a piece by Annie Patterson, i love how she combines her love for growing and finding plants with painting.

i think that her work contains a lot of texture, each colour seems to contain many different shades, her paintings focus on each vein smotherd layer and delicate fold, i love the various mark making techniques and attention to detail.

botanical artists

Sun, 15 May 2011 16:14:49 -0400

botanical artists:

i absolutely love this work by Anna Knight, these images don’t look like paintings but beautiful photograph’s, i love the intricate detail and the way in which the fruit seems almost damp with this clear dewy glaze.

i think that i need to work and adapt my illustration abilities more, they need to be better and more defined, over the summer period i am going to work alot more with drawing and also improve and play with my current techniques.

wow!! withnail and I. an amazing cult classic. feels like a...

Sun, 15 May 2011 16:07:45 -0400

wow!! withnail and I.

an amazing cult classic.

feels like a lifetime since i lived in the lake district.

always an inspiration

Pin hole camera images

Sun, 15 May 2011 15:48:48 -0400

Pin hole camera images:

Here is a flicker page that I have found with lots of different pin hole camera outcomes, I am really looking forward to actually getting out there and experimenting more with my camera. I am also going to perhaps try constructing another camera out of quite a bizzare object and see the the different outcomes.

i am hoping o experiment More with a pin hole camera in the...

Sun, 15 May 2011 15:42:48 -0400

i am hoping o experiment More with a pin hole camera in the future as i think my earlier outcomes were really interesting and even though they were quite underexposed this added to the ghostliness of the image.

my friend has borrowed me a light meter to help determine the exposure times so i am hoping to get some more interesting outcomes with this assisting me.

a very important part of this project was the collecting and...

Sun, 15 May 2011 15:29:00 -0400

a very important part of this project was the collecting and archiving methods that i have used throughout, i have made up this sort of Victorian garden journal i wanted to show these studies as part of the wing so i decided to display for images that i had created.

i was continuously going out on country walks, trips to little villages, markets, shops ect, collecting and studying the leaves as i was doing this i was collecting them in little envelopes to protect them until i got home.

i started to produce little studies onto the brown envelope’s of what the plant had looked like when i collected it, i couldn’t preserve the plant itself as it aged so quickly however think that i have managed to preserve my collections in another way, throughout the medium of drawing, these could now lasrt for an unlimited amount of time and be beautiful forever.

i think that these quite botanical studies should be displayed as a part of the wing as they are the result of whats inside.

i have decided to call this piece philately, i thought that this would be quite fitting, this term means the collection of stamps not necessarilyactually owning the stamps but studying them and taking note of how rare they are and also any historical background that they stamp may have.

I have decided to call this wing 1017 as it has been carefully...

Sun, 15 May 2011 15:09:16 -0400

I have decided to call this wing 1017 as it has been carefully stuffed with 1017 real leaves, the number for a title also gives the piece a very specimen feel as-if it has been found and record just like its contents.

initially i had lots of different ideas of how to display the wing such as in the ceiling so that the viewers have to actually look up to see it, this could also create an interesting shadow below.

another was to place the wing onto the gallery wall and use fishing wire to lift the corners up to create the effect that it has almost landed on the wall.

however i have decided to simply pin the wing flat as over time i have noticed that the leaves inside are crumbling and turning up evoking the fabric of the wing to react in the same way. each corner is slowly curling up and reacting in a very similar way as the leaves inside.

i love the fact that the wing has become part of this aging process, and has transformed into a moving natural object itself.

Issues!

Sun, 15 May 2011 14:48:32 -0400

i have really enjoyed working on different surfaces with my usual choice of media (watercolours) however depending on the fabric the colour can actually bleed alot.

i have controlled the running of the colour using a fine liner, i think that the outcome’s of these fabric illustrations have created a quite nice printed effect. even though i want my drawings to be good i still want the viewer’s to realise that i have drawn them myself instead of simply using patterned fabric.

in my last project delicatessen i made tiny little outfits from scraps of fabric, however I’m still not that good at sewing, alot of this wing has been hand sewn but this was taking to long so for some of it iv had to use a sewing machine this was new to me but I’m quite happy that I’ve managed to work with a new tool and practice during this project.

i have built up a collection of different leaves consisting of...

Sun, 15 May 2011 14:35:58 -0400

i have built up a collection of different leaves consisting of different sizes, colours and textures.

i have started to pin these directly onto my wing, overlapping and interweaving into one another, however over a period of time these are still drying out and falling apart.

in a way i have encouraged this inevitable process and this is actually what i want to happen, however the leaves are breaking away too quickly and leaving nothing but a dusty residue behind.

because i want to capture this fragile element within my wing i have decided that i could make the leaves part of the wings fabric itself.

i have started to sew snug little pouches onto the wing which i have then filled with my collection of various leaves and flowers.

the idea of collecting and preserving these specimens within tight fabric containers has become my archive of information, i wanted to involve the process of the documentation of the various different types of plants so i have decided to use watercolours and acrylics to illustrate what the leaves originally looked like when i first collected them, directly onto the fabric.

this has almost become a sort of labeling system for the different types of leaves.

Article on Michael Landy

Sat, 14 May 2011 04:16:50 -0400

Article on Michael Landy

My Garden

Sat, 14 May 2011 03:58:00 -0400

At home we have a herb garden with growing runner beans, tomato’s, peas, strawberries, and even some wild plants i would like to plant a seed and create studies of this over a period of time from when it is initially planted to being harvest and even eaten.

i could produce a garden journal of this process including photographs, illustration and text.

"“I saw them as optimistic. I liked the way they don’t want to be looked after, that they..."

Sat, 14 May 2011 03:49:12 -0400

“

“I saw them as optimistic. I liked the way they don’t want to be looked after, that they prefer to live in little cracks in the street. It was also a continuation of my work with street furniture - bakers’ trays and shopping trolleys.”

The result is a suite of etchings called Nourishment, a title inspired by the way these “street flowers” - shepherd’s purse, fat hen, or oxtongue - can proliferate with so little nourishment . The etchings are unlike anything Landy has produced before. Intricate and detailed with shapes that criss-cross like dancing figures, they are, says their publisher, Charles Booth-Clibborn of Paragon Press, “somewhere between Dürer and Odilon Redon”.

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Contemporary art Year 2

"I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it’s the parting that keeps..."

"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in..."

a few weeks ago i attended a visiting artists lecture by Rachel...

Christopher Le Brun

Brunnhilde, Christopher Le Brun

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

year 3

Here is a piece by Annie Patterson, i love how she combines her...

botanical artists

wow!! withnail and I. an amazing cult classic. feels like a...

Pin hole camera images

i am hoping o experiment More with a pin hole camera in the...

a very important part of this project was the collecting and...

I have decided to call this wing 1017 as it has been carefully...

Issues!

i have built up a collection of different leaves consisting of...

Article on Michael Landy

Archive

My Garden

"“I saw them as optimistic. I liked the way they don’t want to be looked after, that they..."