Human connection, moments in time and negative shapes and spaces meant I found lots of photographs of family – summing up the human connection and moments captured in time that I seem to constantly drawn to in this project.
I looked at various artists who worked with space and shape. Keith Haring’s simplistic, playful shapes and forms and Henry Moore’s use of spaces in sculpture.
Playing with the images on my iPad looked me to play with line and shape but also placement. This led to abstraction and new shapes made by the negative spaces. Colour became a focus at this point too.
This was the point that I discovered Francis Picabia and reminded myself of Jenny Saville.
It’s worth pointing out that at this stage the assignment piece was evolving in its own right. I felt that the physical prep work is not enough but I had so much in my mind, it was coming out in the final piece.
Tea and Doodles 