People don’t try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.....

So lately I’ve been trying to move on from paintings (comfort zone) and tried mixing different materials into my paintings.

Top picture is a painting done with watercolour and the bottom one is a piece of scrim glued onto paper and painted onto it.I like added different textures to the painting and i like how the scrim casts a blurred shadow over one side of the painting.

From this piece i decided to do a more detailed piece using the scrim and acrylic paint.

Then I wanted to work with a material that symbolised entrapment as the thyme of my project is slightly going in that direction so i started drawing some  blind drawings and making wire pieces of them.

I then stared overlapping these wire pieces onto my paintings to symbolise entrapment of emotions.

I now have started to work away from painting for a bit and started working with baking paper and drawing on that and acetate .

I am now planning on doing a sculpture piece of 20 sheets of acetate with different emotions on them. I will then hang them one in front of the other about an inch apart. As you look directly at the piece it won't be clear as to what you will be looking at. Will keep you up dated on how it’s going.

Ceramics!!

Last week I went to a talk about a group of Irish ceramic artists who travelled to the Chinese town of Fuping, Shaanxi, to make a ceramic collection for the Fule International Ceramic Art Museum. I found their work amazing. Elaine Riordan who was a part of this ceramic group gave the talk. She gave us an insight into the other artist works as well as her own pieces which was really interesting. I loved that the artist’s works were exhibited in our college gallery as we got to see them up close and in person which made me see them in a total different light as I could see the fine detail that went into these pieces.

Elaine Riordan

I love the detail and tones that are in these pieces. I like how this artist has incorporated an architectural element into her pieces. Even though it’s a very structural piece there is still sense an organic element .
there were many other pieces that i found intersting and gave me great inspiralton for my own work.

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The talk and exhibition gave me great inspiration for my project seeing how these artists took ceramic to a totally different level by using mediums I didn’t even think could be used in ceramics.