Richard Long The Bold Paragraphs show extracts of my writing from my dissertation. Richard Long was the second artist that I looked at for my dissertation. Longs work different to Fulton’s was about the rearranging of the landscape that he […]
Referencing previous Blog: Fuchs, R.H. (1986) Richard long by R H Fuchs. Thames And Hudson. (EVAC). Banning, D. (2013) Sticks and stones: Richard Long and his love of the land Available at: http://prodimages.exhibite. com/www_jamescohan_com /Creative_Tourist_Banning _26_March_2013.pdf Accessed 12 November 2013) […]
Carrying on from my previous post 19… I then decided to begin to create this image on a larger scale, being canvas. Image 1: Again I tried to make the first layer quite light and opaque. I then added the […]
Richard Hamilton. Article from http://www.independent.co.uk He credited his lifelong interest in James Joyce with dispelling any inhibitions about experimenting with different forms of expression. He explained: “Joyce let me into an enormous mystery in a way, which was that you […]
Joseph Mallord William Turner Turner was an artist whose work I had put up in my studio space right near the start of this semester. I first started to look at his work because of his subject matter which linked […]
The beginning weeks of my residency consisted of wandering around Digbeth and generally discovering the area. This has led me to discover these intruiging ready made platforms/shelves/plinths. Some of these are formed from weathering and damage to buildings or are […]
Roy Lichtenstein (October 27th 1923 – September 29th 1997) Roy Lichtenstein is a huge favourite of mine. Because of my love of graphic novels and trashy comic books, I find his work inspiring. His defined black lines and emphasis on […]
Jeff Koons (January 21, 1955) I find Jeff Koons inspirational, because of his idea’s of scale and objects. I feel his work is an important part of ‘Pop Art’ and is also essential for contemporary ‘Pop’ artists. http://www.coskunfineart.com Jeff Koons […]
Jeff Koons artworks have certainly shown to us the influence of his enlargement of mundane objects, to younger artists such as Damien Hirst. His 20ft painted bronze sculpture called “Hymn”, which was originally inspired by his son’s fourteen-inch anatomical model […]
BEN FROST. Here are some works by a very influential artist of mine. I feel his work has similar ‘Pop’ styles to my own, as well as using collage and advertisements, along with bold colours and great composition. Here is […]
Ben Frost. “This painting was made for an exhibition I did in San Francisco, and is definitely one of my favourite large paintings I’ve done in the last year or so. The painting is called ’20th Century Violator’ and it […]
Reflection Now seems like a good time to look back over what I have done so far and where I see my work heading in the lead up to our degree show. Before Christmas my work was very different to […]
Day 1
Artist Michael Landy came to UCS not long ago, and talked to us about his art career from when he had a piece of work selected on the BBC TV show ‘Take Hart’, and how his career went from that […]
Peter Doig Peter Doig’s landscape paintings project the suggestive realism and fantasy from beginning to end. Doig sets out, like many artists to tell a story or suggest things. His work became an interest of mine as soon as I […]
At the Moment : Progress Over the Last few days in the Studio I have been looking at backgrounds and different effects on paper and started to recognise them together to begin making collage works. •Mark Making techniques include: •Merging […]
Interviewing myself- analysing my own work Is your work coming together? Yes I feel like my work has really developed over the past few months, contextually as well as physically. This is because I have begun to unravel my thoughts […]
Where am I? Looking back at my blog I feel my ideas have changed quite abit as the posts keep coming. I started off painting portraits that are one tonal and detecting an emotion that may seem obvious what it […]
A record of 7 days spent at the Merz Barn.
Suspended from the station’s Grade 1 listed Barlow Shed roof, David Batchelor’s newly commissioned public art work is unveiled at London’s St Pancras International as part of the latest Terrance Wires installation.
