Monday, 29 May 2017

a reflection

A small man once told me that "Art is just colouring in", but he was just a fool who thought genitalia was a flower.

MA MULTIDISCIPLINARY PRINT ASSESSMENT
The MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking programme has taken three years to complete. 
To supplement my portfolio I have written a brief description of my creative work and the thought processes behind its evolution. This BlogJournal is my response to the MA course  - part diary, aide memoire and personal commentary. 

I am not an intellectual, I simply believe that to be human is to be creative. Creativity is an essential part of who I am and my blog entries reflect this. 

The MA has allowed me to follow a new creative path sampling influences from a wide range of artists, diverse artwork and media and to explore and revisit exciting technical processes. From this research and experimentation I have produced my current work which is the basis for my new journey as an Artist. 








Tuesday, 23 May 2017

MA DEGREE SHOW preparation WOT NO BIBLIOGRAPHY?!!

Friday 2nd June  -  Thursday 8th June 2017  • UWE •  BOWER ASHTON 

I am getting ready for the hanging ...



Planned my space
Painting exhibition boards
Finalising studio journal
Finalising canvasses
Finishing prints
Bought the frames
Framing prints
Filling the portfolio
Business cards printed
Invitations sent to lots
Wine
Wine
Wine
AOB (clean underwear and wine)




BUSINESS CARDS
19 Boxes x 50 Cards = WHAT THE .....
Think this'll be enough???














INVITED GRAYSON PERRY
Think he'll come???
(I figured his loss if he doesn't).


MA SHOW PLAN
My work is a mixture of silkscreen, digital, textile and mixed media prints with frame sizes ranging from A1 to A4. 



TWEET that DRESS DESIGN


Here are the large range of print ideas for some of my textile designs with the tweet I sent which was liked and retweeted. 

My first dress (using my Madonna Rocks design) was actually finished completely at the end of April but I tweeted the image whilst it was on the sewing room table at the end of March. Therefore, I thought that was worth a mention here. Also I referenced 'Atticus' the inspirational, mysterious internet poet as the words seemed to fit the design for the garment - de-saturated woman and children left to survive within blues and lilac.


'We let our lives mix with our dreams, like two coloured paints until we didn't know which was what and we didn't care". atticus


First night in Vienna
VIENNA 
Leopold Museum
19th - 21st May

Here are a series of photographs taken of artwork by Egon Schiele last weekend at the Leopold Museum in Vienna. I chose these specific paintings and my sister took the photographs (one of the perks of being an identical twin - and she got to use the creative brain cell for that weekend).  Schiele has been an influence on my textile and print work - his vibrant use of colour and intricate pattern details combined with brilliant gold decoration - and also the almost organic way in which he interprets the figurative.
girl with yellow cloth
The work is sensuous and fluid, spreading across the canvas. Each organic linear nude appears to be grounded to the canvas with a block of colour. The balance and contrast is evocative and beautiful. My current large-scale line and block colour silkscreen prints have been worked into with gold acrylic, chinagraph and pencil, creating slabs of brightness growing within the overlapping linear figures - colours which 'burn'.
My mixed media silkscreen print

"bodies have their own light which they consume to live, they BURN they are not lit from the outside".
Egon Schiele




Life and Death

The Virgin


Judith with the head of Holofernes










The Kiss

Monday, 22 May 2017


BLUE IDENTITY

" I want to paint the body of a woman first. I give her the grace and charm, and then something more. I am going to condense the meaning of this body, looking for its essential lines .."
"... a body without physiognomy, sexuality.. embodiment - all that would give it identity...always search for the desire of the line, where it wishes to enter or where to die away".
Henri Matisse

Reminiscent of my minimal mini print  (Arnolfini 'Tiny Lady) I have produced a series of linear nude silkscreen prints. I wanted to keep a certain simplicity of line for these images in contrast to my previous print work where the subjects are photographic and complex; with the patterns within the portraits made up of my layered figurative outlines. 

These single forms are compositionally strong and I have played with the juxtaposition of the figure against rectangular shapes - single and double overlapping shades of blue - and with the skin like texture and dots.
http://www.yveskleinarchives.org.  I started with Yves Klein blue but it became varying transparencies Pthalo blue as in the 'blue nudes by Matisse.

My 'desire of line' creates the form with its changing shape dependant on the pressure of a pen and the identity of these female characters hidden due to a lack of facial and sexual features - Barbie? I don't think so!!!











Monday, 15 May 2017


NUDE


I am printing a series of linear nudes in the style of my mini print (which was very successful at the Arnolfini). These linear drawings are focusing again on the fluid and yet transitory nature of the female form and my interpretations have been sketched both singly and in book form. There is something attractive about the swiftness yet delicacy of the curved lines here - although the block colour on the silkscreen print and on the book page is something of an experiment and I'm not sure I like it! (I chose blue and lilac for the screen print as it is reminiscent of my pen and ink 'movement' life drawings).