The collection is growing and visual themes are emerging.
Collage
Line neutral larger board
Line colour larger board
Line neutral/ collections on board
Line B&W mini board
Line colour plus B&W mini
Line Neutral + colour + shape and words
Colour on rectangular board
Mixed media
Pen and collage on board
Water colour, coloured pencil, pen on board
Collage and pencil on board
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking recently about my work and it’s left me feeling stuck. I am at a point now where I have started to pick apart my practice and really begin to understand what my artistic concerns are and where I want to take my work, but I’m struggling with moving it forward.
I have a couple of projects that I’m keen to develop to see where they lead, and I also want to expand my studio practice, to experiment and examine the connecting themes of my work. Over the next few months I’m going to test materials and to explore what it is about certain things that draw me in, experimenting with texture, line and materials, perhaps incorporating more sculptural elements into my work. Yesterday I began; I’m looking at ‘line’ this week and playing with collage and different compositions.
I’m going to be using this blog to document and examine the work I produce and I will be sharing what I do, wherever I can, with whoever I can, in the hope that it will expose me to critique to help me to move my work forward, and by risking criticism, it will hopefully help me to flex my ‘I don’t care’ muscle and keep doing the work.
I’ll also be sharing more of my thoughts on this process over on my own blog. And posting daily images on my Instagram feed so follow me over there if that’s your thing.
My practice is focused on collecting, documenting, and making objects. With a strong sense of line, form, and colour, I use photography, assemblage, embroidery, and sculpture to explore the way things are put together, the objects we keep and discard, and the visual memory of place. www.lisarisbec.co.uk
