New Drawings

These are some recent sketches that i have been working on. I find when im feeling confused and lost going back to drawing is the best things that i can do. I have been using harsher lines and darker shading, which illustrates how im feeling at this current time, my work often relfects my current state of mind. I am facinated by flowers, i find them so intiguing, theres something dangerous about them, they dont last forever, sometimes not even a week, yet there beauty lingers in my mind.

New /Ideas/Photographs

Elizabeth Blackadder

Orchid 1985

Etching


So....ive been taking pictures of flowers that i have seen around the areas i have been in-taking in my surroundings. I love all the beautiful colours that the summer flowers contain.

I recently went to an exhibition in Edinburgh- one of my favourite artists Elizabeth Blackadder. Alot of her work is about plants and flowers, and she draws/paints them as it is something like me she is interested, something she has passion for and that drives her creativity as an artist. I really enjoyed this exhibition as it displayed a variety of different work that she has done over time, and it was clear to see that her ideas and concepts as an artist had developed, however she doesnt make it too complicated- which i like. Her main influence is what is around her, she likes to paint flowers and plants from her back garden.

i though i would look at something which has always been an issue for me, the same for most woman i'de imagine- body image. i want to explore body image vs natural beauty.

As you can see im comparing myself to a model, something which i can't help myself from doing so. We live in a day and age where pressure to be thin and "beautiful" is a necessary, People are fickle and quick to judge. But does being thin make your feel more beautiful, happier, more content? comparing this idea, to the work i have been producing for the past 2 years on flowers. flowers to me are a signature of beauty and elegance. It is possible for human's to be this way naturally at all? With constant diets and eating disorders, the idea oh human and natural beauty has been lost, this is why i look to nature. .... to be continued.

End of second year

so yeah the end of second year...

these are the two paintings that i have decided to exhibit.

Acrylic paint, and acrylic mediums used( gel gloss)

I did this painting over a series of weeks. My main focus was to get the colours right, i wanted the flower to appear bright and bold and full of life, hope, i feel the use of the acrylic mediums helped me to achieve this.

I feel like i achieved alot by doing this painting, it took my away from everyday issues and made me forget , took me away to another place. Somewhere more colourful, somewhere more beautiful, an illusion of colour.

Mono Prints.

I did these mono prints to help loosen up my style, enabling me to be more free within my painting regarding brush strokes.

I enjoy mono printing as it is expressive and doesn't have to be controlled, which is what i like.

current pieces and new ideas and mediums that i am discovering

i will go into more detail on my next post

work from this current month- March.