To start this new post christmas term, my research will begin with Cy Twombly. Twombly was a big influence in my work during the first term of last year and helped me progress technically.
This quote from his website defines his work…
“…viscous globs of paint smeared by hand across the paper, or watered-down pigment allowed to course in rivulets down the page…”
This is the perfect contrast between control and freedom, from which I work from also, the relationship between the artist and their medium, the basis of my last term at uni.
Twombly inspired me before beacuse of his use of bright engaging colours but now I have been enlightened by the darker sides of his work, the deeper colours and the depth of the nature involved…
Technique is massive for Twombly and for myself and it is what links our work the most strongly I think. It feels reassuring to have an artist that I have carried through the last two years, that their work always resonates within my own, UNTITLED NO. 5, (WINTER PICTURES) is just stunning and the perfect beginning place for me this term, blending both my skill and love for colour, but having much more mature approach and feel.
Brown may be seen as a boring colour but it is the earth and comes in so many beautiful shades, my work will hopefully show this!!
Dripping and thick paint are all techniques I want to explore and the inspiration of weather and colliding forces interests me a lot. The colours used in Twombly’s workd especially those surrounding nature and flowers are similar to my palette now and back last year when I focused on pretty pinks and floral colours. Although I no longer want to focus on these asthetically pleasing colours my works still encorporate them slightly…
Images such as Green Fields, The Crack in Her Wall, and My Layered Pink Sky (all 2013) were my step forward, beyond any work I had ever made before, pure from me, spontaneous and textured, exactly what I had hoped for…
