Works Created @ Wigan & Leigh College 2013
The unbounded project was based on exploring the qualities of texture and mark making using paint and natural media. Physicality, lines, shapes and compositions of textures such as bark, leaves and rocks along with the ever changing colours of the environment where explored throughout. The aim was to take these natural, random marks and push them into a new direction, combining both paint, ink, and earth.
My contextual references throughout my journey have been Wols; for his randomness and layering of colour, Antoni Tapies; for his abstractedness and media involvement to create texture and thickness, along with Jackson Pollock; for his expressive, gestural and explosive application of paint, and finally Morris Louis; for his colour and simplicity.
My main focus through my whole project has been to play, experiment and explore with different media using a range techniques. Gradually, over the process of preliminary studies, research and six canvases, the techniques and colours started to create colourful, bold and refined outcomes, each showcasing a variety of marks, pictorial space, texture and colour.
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