My work has really been through three stages so far…I want to take this opportunity to reflect on how my work has changed and progressed.
Stage One
I started off with very floral and decorative prints in level four and moved onto this in a bigger scale throughout level five until I did my collaboration. This pushed me to do bigger abstract pieces that left the pretty floral patterns behind and produced a more mature art. Level six is where this all begins….
My dissertation let me obsess over Rothko and Colour and really emerge myself into the world of modern abstract art and this is how my project this year began.
Stage one is that of colour, the choices are all mine yet they come from the subconscious, so are they really mine? I did find a small link between my mood and the colours but I felt that this was too much of a an emotional topic to continue with and linked almost too closely to my dissertation. You know as simple as happy being pinks and yellows and moody being blues and browns. I never felt there was enough to say with this theory in practice.
This has been the biggest change for me and I feel it comes from a maturity I have now towards my art, natural materials make my work unique and powerful for me, that my art is a collaboration makes it that much stronger…colour is what draws me into most art, the warmth or isolation that colour can bring, it consumes you. The earth and the natural world have been the biggest influences and making art that shows this has been my aim; to show a journey of a natural material and a paint on the paper or canvas….natural being the main word for me at this moment in my art life, and it holds an originality for me, that I feel more connected to art that comes from nature and the earth. Full stop.
