Intention

I think my work continually has a sense of movement and energy to it, be in buildings or people. I feel I can use colour well and enjoy testing what and how colour can change an image. I want to master the balance of colouring and lifework, as well as keeping the kinetic flow but making a piece look professional and not a sketch. I am inspired by what I see on the street  - textures of layered paint, crumbling buildings and what people wear. I recored what I see.

colour

movement

line

+ Printing - different print methods
and how colour is effected.
+ Limited colours and how it
effects the atmosphere.

+ Expressive

+ Calligraphic lines

+ Fashion
+ Weight and thickness,
how it affects movement.

+ Matisse - his bold use.
+ Jon Mcnought - atmosphere.
+ Claude Monet - impressionistic uses.

+  Chinese painting

+ Brush work
+ Laura Carlin

+ Picasso

+ Henri- toulouse Lautrec
+ Lucinda  Rogers

Lucinda Rogers...

Laura Carlin...

Jon Mcnought

Artist research

.......starting points.....

Colour - The sky, Light

Movement - Birds, People

Line - Buildings, Bicycles.

= Environment

My main objective is to record through reportage and observational drawing. I find being in situ inspirational and submergive. 

I am drawn to the way bicycles are tied to posts, left on sidewalks, how their paint contrasts with their background.

Buildings, perspective. The details you don’t quite notice when you look upwards. 

Within these, I’ll look into the way people interact with these spaces, how do they react?

And nature, within the town and country side, birds are the most popular wildlife, seen in the sky and perching on power lines.

And last of all, sky. How does the hour of day effect the light? How does the light effect the people, birds and atmosphere? 

All this is observing the environment and the things that make it.

Im going to achieve the textures through paint and print, and expand my practice in the print room.

I have a ‘catalog’ of photos I’ll use for primary research