About me
As a mature student and a busy mum returning to college, the prospects of the Foundation in Art and Design was exciting. During the past months I have learnt a lot, experimenting in different areas. This has opened my mind to many aspects of Art and Design I had not experienced before. I have worked on projects with themes, the first being to develop ideas from a place or event that I had recently enjoyed, which was a holiday in Cornwall with my family. The second was from a field trip to Pembrokeshire and currently I am working on ideas based on ‘The City’; a recent trip to Dublin helped with that. Within each project I have produced work in photographs, working with photoshop to alter images, Collagraph printing, textiles, ceramics and painting each time developing the ideas from sketchbook work. In Art History I have learnt how to analyse paintings and also use the influence of other artists to help with a point of departure in my own work. Currently I am influenced by Anselm Kiefer as I like his use of materials; in a recent painting I have painted parts of a Georgian door and used polyfiller, tile grout, copper and emulsion paints to produce a triptych.
Running alongside the project work and for the first time, I have also had the opportunity to do life drawing. I have thoroughly enjoyed the challege. I have recently started using underpainting and then adding flesh tones.
Working with the younger students has also been a refreshing experience, observing the way they see things and how modern influences help them develop their work. I have learnt a lot from them too.
In conclusion, my experience on the course has given me the passion to continue my studies at University so that I can fulfil a dream of achieving my degree at Art School. One day I would like to be able to teach or use my degree in Art therapy for health.
Using the studies of the textures and shapes that you see in and around the rock pools I developed the design for my ceramics. I practised using different coloured slips, oxides and glazes observing the different effects that I could achieve to use on my finished pieces. 
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