Pigment

I have had to re-think the presentation of my picture’s in the degree show. I have been given a different space from the one I wanted.

I have been given I long stretch of wall I think it is about 6 meters long so I have to completely re-think how to display my pictures.

The pictures I am thinking of showing are this ones.

I will have to see how they go together and display them in a pleasing way.

Last Saturday I was part of an artist residency at Slack Space in Colchester. Different artists have been coming in over this month and spending a day creating some work in the space. The work will be part of an exhibition at the end of the month.

I came in and painted three pictures. The space was beautiful it was in an extension out the back, in a room with big windows with lots of light. People would come in to the space and watch me paint and speak to me about my work I really enjoyed this even though I find it quite hard to explain what I do.

here are my pictures

and my poster.

I remember the first time I saw his work, I was 17 doing an AS level in art and we had a trip to Tate, my interest had just spiked in art. It was the first time I had been to such a huge gallery I can remember that Twombly made such a great impression on me especially his season’s paintings. I didn’t know any thing about him but his paintings really captivated and inspired me.

I remember liking the organic feel to his paintings and the colours and I still appreciate this. I now find his work massively inspiring. It was his paintings that had the spring colours to them I enjoyed the most.

Working to the theme 10 I decided to paint 10 colourful abstract landscapes that went with the space I was in.  My work tends to be bright and colourful and as the room is white it really helped my artwork pop.

I wanted to create 10 artworks in connection with quotes that are important to me. I named the works the quotes that inspired me to paint each artwork.

‘You may think I’m small, but I have a universe in my head.” – Yoko Ono

I really enjoyed working in the white space it really helped me concentrate being away from people and distractions. Working to a time limit really worried me at first but it turns out I was very quick having finished the paintings and hung the work by Thursday!

I’m pleased with the outcome of my work in the white space as I think it looked professional and visually interesting.

Now that the project is finished I feel that it was very successful.

Here are the paintings.

and here is the layout.

Italian artist Filippo Minelli  started taking photos of smoke-bombs in romantic landscapes to juxtapose the beauty of nature with the violence of a medium devoted to create chaos with a stunning result.

Minelli became fascinated with smokebombs after viewing them in use during various political protests. Keeping that in mind, the artist chose to photograph many of these smokebombs in a rather unusual setting. Instead of seeing these immense color saturated plumes of smoke arising from the chaotic scenes of a protest, the artist chose to photograph them in a different element entirely.

Instead, Minelli chose to utilize the striking natural landscapes of Italy’s Castle Hill region for his recent works, decontextualizing smokebombs in an attempt to isolate them in a state of pure beauty.

…silence and light are always there, especially in the natural or abandoned environments I look for. If you visit them by yourself you realize there is something that contains the landscape, and that thing is silence. Silence in the desert is different from silence in the mountains, and different again from the silence you experience while stopping at a red light in the city. I wanted to give that element a physical shape.

–Filippo Minelli

I love the concept behind his work and the use of bright synthetic colours with the natural landscapes.