Final Pieces for Subject

This is the final body of work that I produced for subject. I have been heavily influenced by colour and pattern and what to express a journey through the city by the use of small details and colours that can be seen here in Cardiff. I feel that by looking into John Pipers work it has opened up a whole new pathway for me artistically and I have been able to explore ways or working that i have not tried before.

Personal Statement

This year I have been focusing on the Urban Landscape in particular trying to embody the what its like to be travelling through Cardiff. I began through the exploration of my environment, collecting different found objects and taking photographs focusing on different compositions and pattern.

This began me on a journey trying to push the idea further by exploring abstraction through my paintings and prints, which helps to show my experience and the essence of Cardiff by the use of shape and colour rather than directly recording what I see around me.

Final piece

This is one of the Final Pieces that I created for subject I have been inspired by the original abstract artwork i selected by john piper and many other influences such as my trip to Morocco and the style of art there and and by looking more into colour and pattern finding other Artists such as Hans Hoffman and Per Kirkeby. I chose to imagery taken from previous photographs of the city which I then used ink to create the gestural painting of the urban Landscape.

Ink drawing final pieces

These were originally just going to be experiments but I ended up really like them and think they work well together with my other pieces. I created the work inspired by the City and the work of Franz Kline. I really enjoyed creating this work as it enabled me to use more free marks to create energy within the work with to me expresses partly the feeling of the City. I also selected imagery in the work that is taken from a specific journey that I feel are marker points that I see while walking which I hope shows a through each piece.

Found object Sculptures

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These are sculptures that are made from found objects from my journey back to my house from university. I used the same objects to create different compositions that reflect the City. I wanted to use Photoshop to edit these but I couldn’t access it o the computers, but I will work into these in the future and push this idea. I really like the outcome of this experimentation as I think it reflects the City in the way I wanted, by focusing on the small details of the environment.

I created some paintings from the pictures as I liked the compositions and wanted to explore the idea further without the use of Photoshop. I also think that I would like to carry on collecting objects and construct the sculptures properly.

Experimenting with Plaster

My original idea was to create a surface out of plaster which I could then use to create a piece using ink and spray paint but on the removal of this piece from the mold in shattered so I began to creates these pieces which can be seen above where I have experimented with ink trying to show the patterns of the urban landscape. Although I did was to use the whole mold I think that these pieces effectively describe what I’m trying to show and they are an interesting outcome.