SELF DRIVEN ARTWORK
2. SELF DRIVEN ARTWORK
Throughout life a variety of circumstances have significant impact on our physical, emotional and spiritual beings. Making comment on these through artwork is one of the ways we cope and share our experiences.
My self driven artwork includes 3 major areas of Social Comments; Play and Personal Experience.
Social Comments:
Living in a small and very conservative community has meant that a lot of my social comments are disguised through the use of birds and plants as to use the human figure could lead to issues that would restrict my ability to survive as an artist.
Small communities are full of self-righteous people that see themselves as better than others in the community and engage in a large amount of social gossip that undermines the lives of others. This work is about some of those self-elected judges.
Examples: Hmm I See What You Mean and Did You See That
Throughout life a variety of circumstances have significant impact on our physical, emotional and spiritual beings. Making comment on these through artwork is one of the ways we cope and share our experiences.
My self driven artwork includes 3 major areas of Social Comments; Play and Personal Experience.
Social Comments:
Living in a small and very conservative community has meant that a lot of my social comments are disguised through the use of birds and plants as to use the human figure could lead to issues that would restrict my ability to survive as an artist.
Small communities are full of self-righteous people that see themselves as better than others in the community and engage in a large amount of social gossip that undermines the lives of others. This work is about some of those self-elected judges.
Examples: Hmm I See What You Mean and Did You See That
Personal Experience:
Sometimes the personal experiences are so strong that the human form has to be used and bluntness has to be stated. I do this with the total understanding that these artworks may not sell, because they have limited appeal and therefore will not contribute to my financial survival. But to me the stories needed to be told and they, like my social comments, are an integral part of my emotional and spiritual survival.
Example: Despair and Pressures
Sometimes the personal experiences are so strong that the human form has to be used and bluntness has to be stated. I do this with the total understanding that these artworks may not sell, because they have limited appeal and therefore will not contribute to my financial survival. But to me the stories needed to be told and they, like my social comments, are an integral part of my emotional and spiritual survival.
Example: Despair and Pressures
Play:
One of the fabulous things about being a full-time artist is that society gives you the permission to be slightly left of normal and accepts that, to them, you spend your time playing.
As artists we often suffer from the disease of taking ourselves too serious and we need to set aside time and energy to literally have fun with the ‘what if’ of ideas, techniques and observations regardless of the results.
I challenge myself to try different things.
One of the fabulous things about being a full-time artist is that society gives you the permission to be slightly left of normal and accepts that, to them, you spend your time playing.
As artists we often suffer from the disease of taking ourselves too serious and we need to set aside time and energy to literally have fun with the ‘what if’ of ideas, techniques and observations regardless of the results.
I challenge myself to try different things.
- Create different prints by using different plates in different sequences Circles
- Use abstract paintings to inspire prints: the development of A Purple Look
- Create a new artwork from the plate left over from another artwork: Cogitation
