Current Work (Level 4 Project)

How much control do you have over a painting?:Restriction/Fluidicity

  

Images are of my most recent paintings on the project. They started off from the idea of how much conscious control does the artist have over the work they create. Looking at how shapes and line, colour and gesture are driven by the conscious mind, and trying to discover when can a painting truely be a free painting? It seems no matter what the artist is trapped into allowing their personality to seep through in some form. To me I found that my paintings became very natural looking and loose. Curves and rough shapes seemed to dominate within them and i've started to use even looser materials such as crayons and rollers instead of brushes, so it can hold a flowing and gentle quality. It links again to my project title of how restriction leads a painting away from its soft and fresh natural abstract form. Loose yet powerful forces in nature also link with this idea... e.g a river without constrictions flows in whichever direction or course it wishes... also with wind and rain and plants and seasons etc which I can start to look and think about within my work.

New Ideas For Project:

                     

Photos incorporating ideas that the natural gestures within painting and the subconscious are directly related to natural elements and patterns within nature. I could experiment at combining loose and free painterly gestures of my own with the stilled elegant captures I had created through photography.

New Painting 


Made with acrylic, pastel and water. Combining ideas of a natural goddess of nature pushing the ability to paint with subconscious gestures and dream like colours.Loose words about nature were added within this first painting idea as well as curves and block abstract shapes (I had learnt from capturing these shapes within natural scenes such as trees and the sky and still shapes within the world.) The painting was created very quickly, under 15 mins so as to allow free expression to drive my creative judgement and the theme of my project.