Secondary: Artist Response

I created some pieces in response to my artist research, exploring processes, ideas and effects to develop my visual work.

Illustration and Paint –

I was inspired by Nanami Cowdroy here, I wanted to explore soft and hard effects together to unite the emotions of the river and urban landscape of the village.

Here I wanted to use an unusual perspective and material to play around with mundane scenery in an emotive manor.

I wanted to pull through northendens features and important visual make up, I decided to create tiled images to explore the real scenes of Northenden Village.

Here I created a range of rough sketches inspired by Bob Dylan and Simone Ridyard exploring urban landscape through characterise style and individual imagination.

I created these drawings to exlpore a variety of illustration effects inspired by the works of Bob Dylan, Simone Ridyard and Nanami Cowdroy.

Textiles

After creating a body of illustrative response work I wanted to further my ideas by introducing textiles, I used a recognisable building on palatine road in this stitch drawing, embroiding areas and windows to push shape and detail through the sample.

Thread Drawing

I was inspired by Debbie Smyth to further my textiles approach and use thread drawings that come off the surface, I used imagery by the river for this particularly the Heron sculpture at the park.

Wood Etch

I had the idea of pulling the river into my work by using nature, I felt by using a wooden canvas for drawing or etching I could explore the urban lanscape in relation to its close rural paths.