Foundation Work From February 2008

These are drawings of scupltures from the British museum and from other collections. With these pieces wanted to convey the coldness of the stone and marble which was used to create these beautifully crafted and emotive sculptures. So i chose a cool colour palette and tried to draw them in a detailed yet sum what vague way. The drawings were done in stages layering pastels and rubbing back to create the sense of depth. The overall effect of this made the drawings look asif they were drawn from ice but still retained the level of detail that was needed to define the form.

Foundation Work From December 2007

Burlesque Dress, Hand Stitched Paper Photocopies.

This was a project i worked on based upon a workshop i took part in orientated around the creation and expression of randomly created textures layered with a graphic structured element. The purpose was to to create textures using paint in a loose way letting the paint imprint onto the surface of the card without any prior thought or planning. Then to add more structured elements on top of this, which would create and emphasise the composition and give and interesting balance to the chaotic nature of the paint.

The workshop was only on for one day but i decided to take it further and create a project expanding on this idea. I loved the way the cards looked and came up with the idea of making them into some sort of gown or costume. I settled on attempting to make a burlesque style dress using scans of the original cards printed onto paper and sown together to create the outfit. The result was a highly detailed and interesting piece of work which is unfortunately incomplete due to time restraints. See above image for final piece.


Acrylic Paint On Card With Stencil Layering, Individual Cards.

Early Works From 2006 - 2007 Period

Life drawing sketches done in black wax crayon on A2 scale paper. This was from a small series of works that were taken forward to final exhixhibition at John Leggott College in June 2007.