In my last post I was explaining that my work that I have created throughout my university experience has been compared to Jackson Pollock, so that is why I decided that in my last year that I would change the direction that I was in and explore the idea of who I am in my art.

The artwork that I create is very in the moment and spontaneous, I wanted to create the feeling that the work was flowing as one than having several elements to the the painting. So last week I had a tutorial with my personal tutor and I wanted to talk to her about what I wanted to do and what could I look at for reference.

We talked about the scale of the painting, try painting on top of a photocopy or print of the painting. Also I have a good variety of artists to look at as reference, for example Frank Stella, Tiff Manuell, Ian Davenport, Howard Hodgkin, Robert Rauschenberg, Bernard Frize, Zebedee Jones, Sarah Morris and Christopher Wool. The scale was something that I wanted to play with, I have always painted on a large scale but I think that painting on a small scale might create texture and thickens. Working on a smaller scale but using the same amount of paint I think will bring a different depth to my work, it will almost be three dimensional.


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Last semester I had a good idea of what I wanted to do for my degree project, but know because I have not done any art over the Christmas period I am starting to second guess my thoughts and ideas. I have begun to realize that not creating work for that long, makes me feel so unmotivated that I wanted to start my whole project again.

After playing around with different idea I began to see that I was still creating the same work, and using the same subject matter of process. I think that the only thing that I am struggling with at the moment is inspiration, in particular artists’. Whenever someone looks at my work they would always reference Jackson Pollock and he is an inspiration of mine, but I don’t want my work to be a representation of him. This is the time that I want my personality shine through my work almost like it is a part of me. Now looking at the work I have created so far I really like the vibrant colours throughout the work but one thing that I am not quiet happy with is that to me it look a bit busy in places, I don’t think that I have not found a flow to my work.


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