Drawing in the expanding field

I have now taken shapes from my drawing into 3D using paper clay, which has brought back an organic connection to the original shell forms.

I took shapes out of my drawing compositions, which visually look formal so that I could translate these qualities into paper clay. It’s almost like these shapes are falling out on the composition.

I have gained a real interest in ceramics from my clay experimentation. It’s a shame this interest has come at the end of my degree year. I do intend to continue to develop my ceramic technique and skills.

Drawing is making a mark in the form of line, shape and form, which can be with any medium even sculptural. It’s a developed understanding that drawing does not restrict you to just using paper and pencil.

Drawing has always been used as a primary tool to explore ideas and new styles but traditionally restricted to pencil on paper. AS a Contemporary artist I want to change people’s understanding of drawing through my art. Instead of doing the obvious like creating a painting and calling/ giving it the title ‘drawing’, I am using traditional medias of drawing, treating/ stretching them and presenting them as final piece. Their large scale helps my concept but transporting and storing them in my house will be hard.

As I feel proud that I have discovered my own intuitive process of working, I have recorded my process through the layering development of these canvases in an animation. From the animation you can see this transformation within my drawings development. Layers are lost visually from the beginning of the process and the audience only see the end from the canvases.

My process allows me to detach myself from the natural forms in their realistic state and develop them to produce something different and new, thus creating ‘new reality’. The process of developing drawings demonstrates my exploration of materials, building this layered formation of evolution emphasising transformation, which I to recorder with photos, photograms, projections and video/animation.

At the beginning of my process I started to use the movement of acetate on a project to develop a complex composition but later change to a more intuitive process via using my sense of touch and blind folding myself. I started to play with my left over acetate to create small sculptures. From these I have recorded projections.

As projections have no solid existence, once again I felt the need to recorder this progress therefore I produced photograms which are really effective because of the contrast and shape. I like how it’s a record of light transition rather than a physical object, although the object is required. I have not continued with this at present due to lack of ideas for development and I am pursues other directions.

At the beginning of this year I have struggled and my progression had been slow. I struggle to make decisions in the fear that certain developments will destroy the current stage of work. This has been as real challenge for me but in recent months I have come out of my comfort zone and taken risks. These have mostly been successful and some not so much but by continuing with the development I have been able to discover new interest aspects of my work allowing for further development.

I labelled my art as ‘drawing in the expanding field’, not as mixed media because my process and technique defines my creative development, not the media I use. In essence drawing is making a mark in the form of line space and form using friction to transform materials into art. Drawing is not dependent on the materials used as it is a gestural action describing something in space. My work can be explained as a form of hybridity, demonstrate my exploration of materials, building this layered formation of evolution emphasising transformation.

I am finally coming to the end of my degree and looking forward to the possibilities of the future, which is both exciting and scary at the same time. I find myslef reminising about how fast time has flown since I started A-level. Throughout my years in education I have tested my skills, intrests and styles trying to find my own intuitive processes of working and style. it is only at the end of my degree that I believe I am now going in the right direction.