100cmx160cm Acryllic, sand, dirt and Styrofoam on canvas
Achieving an impressive impact with this piece was primarily due to light and texture. Following a visit to the National Gallery of London, the influence of Turner's landscapes entered my own work. Using an array of substances, I built a textured base to paint over which creates depth and tactility. Constable's famous statement on his rival's work, 'he seems to paint with a tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy', suggests that transparency and lighting were central, light is an element that I aimed to include with the clean, blurred sky, contrasting with the saturated colours and rough textures below. The use of sand was inspired by a local artist, John Connolly, whom I discovered at Art In The Gardens festival in Sheffield, 2013.

Installation piece using wood, felt, Biro and thickened acrylic.
Originally this work began as an investigation into people and places. The primary focus was the explore the ways in which experiences and encounters are shown in the formations of the skin. This later developed into a comment on the 'circle oflife', both biological and philosophical. The human body is eventually recycled back into the earth, thus illuinating the impermanency of a single life.

Series of works using a range of media, acrylic, Biro, oil pastel and felt.
All four of these pieces were experiments building up to a installation piece (see next post).

Primary source tonal drawing

Pages from art sketchbook
These pages explore the work of Georgia O'Keefe, they show idea development, a line drawing and a primary source painting of a sheep skull.

Pages from art sketchbook.
Lucian Freud is the focus of these pages, which include a primary source portrait, as well as a painting of Freud's mother.

Sculptural work madefrom wire, Modroc and coloured wax. 100cm in height, presented in a darkened room, hung and lit from within. Monoprint as a two dimensional represntation.
This sculpture has influences from various artists which have been exhibited at the local Yorkshire Sculpure Park, including Yinka Shonibare and Jaume Plensa. The intention behind the piece was to shock and scare viewers with grotesque imagery, provoking thoughts regarding the calamitous impacts of oil spills, particularly the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill. Themes such as reflection, responisbility and regret are explored through the implication that human actions are ultimately detrimmental the themselves, as well as the surrounding envirnment.

Primary source tonal drawing