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.
Working from a study of the sea and using watercolours, threads and bits of scrim I developed a simple design that helped me with the design for a Collagraph.
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