To understand how light would hit a space full of brushstrokes I made a model of 3D brushtrokes with the intention of shining a light through a small hole to get something similar to the cone affect of light I want to paint. I used this wire because it is self supporting, making it great…… Continue reading Light Model Photos
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Lyrical Abstraction
A term I had not heard of until now. There’s a great definition of it on this website: https://www.ideelart.com/magazine/lyrical-abstraction , where it is defined as: Lyrical Abstraction is a seemingly self-defining term, and yet for generations its origin and meaning have been debated. The American art collector Larry Aldrich used the term in 1969 to define…… Continue reading Lyrical Abstraction
A note from my phone: space in Pip Dickens’ work
I wrote this on my phone last term, but it got lost in my notes. I still think it’s relevant, even more so now I think, so I’m recording it here: Screenshot of what I was looking at when writing below The space produces a sense of dense matter. Is that the medium? Or something…… Continue reading A note from my phone: space in Pip Dickens’ work
Drawing the paper mache sculpture
HB – 2B Pencils Detailed drawing. Transferring dimensions back onto paper. I then traced this drawing with clean newspaper paper, and cut around it so I had a template for the next drawing. Black and white thinned acrylic paint I reduced the detailed painting down to lines. It’s interesting how this drawing is so different…… Continue reading Drawing the paper mache sculpture
Drawing from the clay sculpture
The reason I want to do these sculptures is to understand how I can better add dimensional shapes into my paintings. So once I finished the clay sculpture I wanted to draw it, to see how it would translate back onto paper – how easily could I translate the clay back into simple lines? This…… Continue reading Drawing from the clay sculpture
Kunz’s drawings as sculptures: Visual Mindmap
Some sculptures that resemble the shapes in Kunz’s drawings, and appear to me as three-dimensional manifestations of her drawings. What’s interesting to me is that looking up at a (linear) sculpture creates such symmetry and shapes that could easily be flattened into a drawing. But when you stand back from the shape and look at…… Continue reading Kunz’s drawings as sculptures: Visual Mindmap
Artist: Emma Kunz
Kunz was a Swiss healer, researcher and artist. I saw her work for the first time at the Serpentine Gallery over Easter in the exhibition Emma Kunz – Visionary Drawings: An exhibition conceived with Christodoulos Panayiotou. I read about her work as we entered the exhibition and was immediately interested, and surprised, because I had…… Continue reading Artist: Emma Kunz
Studio Set Up
Tidying and cleaning my studio puts me in a better phrase of mind to make more. Taking down work that had become less relevant keeps my studio wall relevant and focused. Ink drips on the floor and on the wall are building up. There is a clear history of what has been made before.
Workshop inspiration
This is the board of experiments I did in acrylics for a surface painting workshop. I particularly like the top left section of the board. Using washes of pure colour with a matte medium. It creates a luminous and textured image that is similar to what I want in my colour experiments.
Georgina Harris 