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The Degree Show is fast approaching, and its time to stop and think about how and what we are going to display and where. I have made up four canvases that are about 5ft high. On these I am going […]

When I researched and wrote my dissertation on the figurative work of Lucian Freud and Jenny Saville I was convinced that my work would move towards large figurative portraiture. Over the summer last year I did research and plan my […]

  I was drawn to this image because of the strong direct gaze. The source of this image was taken from the same image that i created the portrait drawing from, focusing on the woman’s face with the muscular shoulders […]

This drawing was taken from an image online, that i cropped to focus on the face. The woman on the original image was very muscular and i wanted to see if i could carry this from the body into the face. […]

Like my painting i have a particular style with the way that i draw and my source material. Although i like the idea of real life drawing, it is not easily accessible when creating works on the female nude. So […]

From my research, and looking at the female nude, it got me thinking of the three Somatotypes :- Ectomorph (thin),Endomorph (round) and mesomorph (muscular). The old masters usually painted in an idealized manner using social acceptance to push there nudes, […]

Being fascinated by the human body, is what led me to my subject for my dissertation. The dissertation ran along side my practical work. This interest for the human body and expression led me down the path of the creative […]

Over the summer break I decided to make and paint a large canvas (1.8×1.2m). I researched for my dissertation the work of past old masters and in particular a painting by Velasquez. Diego Velasquez, Rokeby Venus, c. 1647–51. 122cm x […]

Kathryn Raffell, 2014, Untitled, clay, 15cmx5cm. My studies have moved to exploring the figure in sculptural form. In response to the female nudes that Jenny Saville paints. I have sculpted a voluptious female form in clay. Kathryn Raffell, 2014, Untitled, […]

Mr Vovk painting All the artist I looked at in my dissertation – Cecily Brown, Francis Bacon and Jenny Saville use various appropriation of imagery. Because of this knowledge I have has one eye open (in newspapers in particular) for […]

Big canvas in progress I always wanted to paint the figure for this project but was unintentionally lead towards the planes of the face. Through experimenting on a small canvas I knew to get the freedom and expression of marks […]

A few weeks ago I responded to the images of my swollen flesh. I was particularly interested in the fact that in this changed state my face had become a trace of my emotions. My emotions had temporarily scared the […]

Quotes from Skinning the Paint by Emily Braun, a key text in contextualising my project. I will reflect back on this and try and more clearly pair parts of this text with my work. ‘In the history of art, Titian […]

A few days ago I visited a butchery and took photographs of the meat hanging in there walk in fridge. I did this to gather images to use as reference for colour palate. Meat and flesh is a relationship I […]

This week I have been trying to get out of my comfort zone – Realising what paint can do and enjoying the experimentation and interaction of my process. I have had an image on my phone, I have been wanting […]

I have always had a battle with myself as a painter. What is more important and where does the balance lie between paint and the subject? Last year I looked at the actual act of painting and paints physical qualities […]

Wow, I love Vasconcelos and I love the sound of her name and where she lives and her trajectory as an international artist. From the interview I posted earlier I will get something that is very interesting/important to me at […]

I have been looking at artists Jenny Saville, Francoise Neilly, Nick Leapord and Luca Pailizzi. Jenny Saville paints fairly disturbing portraits of mainly women and some men in various stages of surgery.Her work features copious amounts of flesh, distorted and […]

Trying to understand WHY over the three years at uni I have been drawn to painting portraits. Its been my biggest hurdle trying to understand my own compulsion to keep painting faces. Does there have to be WHY? WHY NOT? […]

MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE #18 A ‘life-style’ philosophy is apparent in the aspirations of many of the artists’ groups which have been studied: “to provide opportunities for the public to become involved in the arts by meeting artists in their studios, […]

Other artists I am looking at for my dissertation who work from photograohs are Jenny Saville, Lui Xiaodong and Elizabeth Peyton. I like the fact that Lui Xiaodong paints ordinary people where he lives in China , snapshots from ordinary […]