I chose to look at dead insects firstly, which you can see in my little trinket box (and in my previous post) I became really fascinated by how weird these creatures became in their deathly state, and when you looked at them in such detail. I sourced images of dead animals & I moved onto painting dead birds, dead foxes, dead deers, dead rabbits, and made a series of paintings (around 90 in total!) of these creatures, I found it especially interesting if they were twisted, contorted, rigid, somehow changed in their death.
I worked in black drawing ink for most of the images, but began to introduce colour into my birds, butterflies and deers. I was interested in bringing these flashes of colour in but also I was interested in the scale of the things, a tiny fox next to a gigantic butterfly, or a mouse as big as a deer, I think the surreal aspect of the paintings is very important.
The drawings ended up being very beautiful things, which seems ironic when you look at my subject matter, but I think that's sortof my point behind it all.
Absobloodylutely fantastic!!!
ReplyDeleteAre any of these for sale?
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Hi
ReplyDeletewell I'm just about to take them down from my exhibition so yeh sure, all/any of them!
I've promised a couple of the ones that weren't in the exhibition to people on my course, but not any of these.
is there any in particular you liked?
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