Even though we are coming to the end of this degree project I am still finding artists work that is inspiring and also relates to my subject matter and me.
Thanks to social media like Facebook and Instagram I came across the artists Samantha Keely Smith and Jessica Oliver by accident.
After seeing a few images of both artists work it made me want to look a little more in depth at each artist and their paintings.
Samantha Keely Smith
Essex born artist Samantha Keely Smith paints ‘abstract ocenic landscapes’. She mainly works with shellac, enamel and oil paint, materials that I havent really used within my own practice (except from some experiments with oil paints towards the start of this project).
I found a quote from Smith which relates a lot to my paintings . . .
“My images are not at all real places or even inspired by real places. They are emotional and psychological places. Internal landscapes, if you will. The tidal pull and power of the ocean makes sense to me in terms of expressing these things, and I think that is why some of the work has a feel of water about it. My work speaks of things that are timeless, and I think that for most of us the ocean represents something timeless.”
My work is not based on any real place or copied from any image, what smith says really relates to me and makes me think about my work a lot more in relation to them being emotional and psychological places.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/04/internal-lan…
http://www.samanthakeelysmith.com
Jessica Oliver
Jessica Oliver is an artist from suffolk that is now living in london. Oliver works from the natural environment.
“When painting from landscape my intent is to represent the light, impact, immersion and energy experienced in nature. The viewer’s exploration of atmosphere and the visual and visceral surface of the paintings is my main focus, using abstraction to re-invent an experience of space.”
http://instagram.com/jessoliver_
