A Dream of Wild Bees

These are some photos I took for my current project, which is (in a nut-shell) about death. I've been working on sketches and ink drawings from them

Sleep Study

These are just some of the pieces I did for my Second Year at UCLAN.

My project started as a study of the sleeping figure, looking at tiny things like the twitches of the face or fingers as a person sleeps.

As they do, the project changed a lot over the few months I worked on it, I became fascinated by a more scientific approach at looking at the sleeping body, I read up on dream theories, and the medical state of a body as it sleeps, these are the things that influenced the final work, some of which can be seen here.

I became interested in sleep apnoea, and the fluid, dreamy state of a sleeping person, entwined with the harsh stark lines of this medical equipment which sleep apnoea patients have to wear as they sleep.

I used birds a lot in my images as well, this stems from a fascination I have with them anyway but also an image I became enthralled with during my research. A machine which (from my fairly BAD scientific) understanding measured the beats of a birds wings. The bird was wired up to a machine and I became so interested interested in this image, the birds wings fluttering and the wires holding it back to this machine, and also in how the machine worked - and the links this had to medical equipment which are used today to measure sleeping patterns, that I had to incorporate it into my paintings.