ABSTRACTION 3
Week 12
Artists in attendance 13
The group is getting to grips nicely with abstraction. There have been lots of beautiful images produced over their development period. A little niggle that one member has is that she has many ideas and is finding it hard to decide which way to go and this is making the development process difficult for her. Another lady whilst choosing images is thinking too far into the future “what can I do with it what will it look like when finished?” these are all good, but as I told her just start with something you like the look of, don’t worry about the end result, the process will take you its own way.
I reminded them that they were going up in the gallery space the week before Christmas people started to worry about what people would think. I assured them that people would think what they wanted. if they themselves liked it as the creator that was what was important. I have been playing devils advocate and questioning them about their images they have been quite defensive (in a good way) and have explained their image with confidence about where it came from, what influenced them and the story behind it.
So roll on next week when they start the final pieces on their boards. I cant wait to see them up and turn our boring white space into a colorful place of imagination.
