The photographs are taken from a series of prints from a brief about ‘Time’. I took photographs of a girl slowly being covered in layers of dripped paint, that slowly built up and were eventually washed away in the shower. I was interested in the idea of using the body as a canvas and exploiting its many associations. I was influenced by the work of Annie Leibovits who painted the bodies of Keith Harring, and Demi moore in a particularly controlled way. I wanted to experiment in a more expressive style. I think these images are highly evocative and I feel that the splatters and dripped paint emphasize the vulnerability of the pale figure.
These charcoal drawings are from a set of 12 in which the time allowed to create the drawings was decreased per image,The first image was completed in 36 minutes(top left), the rest that followed were 16 minutes(bottom left),8 minutes(top right),4 minutes(bottom right) and another 8 sketches were made eventually ending in a fast as 5 seconds. The point of the exercise was to free up your style and get down as much of the character as possible within these short periods of time, the exercise forced me to step outside of my comfort zone and convey as much of the character as possible in just a few lines.
This is a sketch book page showing on the left an experiment using materials such as pens, tip - ex and different papers for visual communication and on the right is what eventually became my visual communication project in which I painted an old man and took a series of images as I ragged it down until it became this painting. My final piece was a series of photographs finding the abstract within the image.
I created this piece for a brief based on boxes. It is based on a piece by Peter Blake ‘The Toy Shop’ 1962. In the top section I brought a selection of cheap and recognizable toys from various charity and pound shops to recreate a modern day version of Blake’s window. Below I created some iconic pop art images and made three plaster cast faces to go above them. Behind the door I created a small Rauschenberg inspired painting as I particularly like his work.
This is another example of a sketchbook page that shows me developing an idea for a possible painting. The main influences for the piece on the right is Francis Bacon. I was experimenting with movement using hot reds contrasted against a still image made from cool tones and using it in the context of age.
These paintings are from my Final Major project on my Fine Art National Diploma course.
This is a painting based on the work of Yank Pei Ming.
This is the largest scale I have ever painted on and I really enjoyed it, I found the larger canvas accommodated my preferred style of painting, as I was able to use sweeping brush marks and splatter paint to a greater effect.
I hope that this along side my personal statement gives you a clear idea of the kind of work i like to make and you are able to see how committed and focused i am. I look forward to hearing from and hopefully showing you my work in person soon.