Lousie Mead and Ben Walker

Found two artists whose work are vaguely similar and both are highly interesting to me.

Mead and Walker have an abstract approach to the way they paint nature which I'm very drawn to. I love the usual styles and colours they employ in their art and I feel as though this is a direction I would like to take my project in.

Louise Mead;

Ben Walker;

Photo's.

Just a small update with some more photo's I've taken. :)

Textures in Earth.

After doing the wax I realized one thing it had been very good for was showing up the texture of the bark pieces I had used. The feel to them was interesting and I really like the idea of trying to mimic natural texture because it would link back into the project with the sense of touch it would be appealing to.
I started this exploration my creating my own artificial piece of bark with clay and cotton wool like material. I painted it to make it look more realistic.
From this exercise I learned that I had no interest in doing a larger version of it but still enjoyed the process.
I'm also including some of the early pages from my sketch book and another texture piece i made to mimic wood using tissue paper, twine and PVA.

Fun with Wax.

Once again doing something I haven't done before with materials I've never used before. I'm really enjoying it and wax is such an interesting medium to work with.
I got a couple to branch pieces from the smoking area in the college and made a clay base for them. Using this a silicon mold was made of these pieces of bark.
I tried mixing different coloured waxes together and even got to make some resin pieces.
All in all I was pretty happy with the result and look forward to using wax again in the future.

Richard Long.

In the nature of things:
Art about mobility, lightness and freedom.
Simple creative acts of walking and marking
about place, locality, time, distance and measurement.
Works using raw materials and my human scale

in the reality of landscapes.

Richard Long is someone else I've been looking at in relation to my subject element of Earth. I find him to have much in common with the other artist I've looked at, Andy Goldsworthy, due to a mutual use of circles and creates of rounded sculptures.
Long is and English sculptor, photographer and painter. He is one of the most well known British landscape artists and I greatly admire the pieces I've seen from him. Like Goldsworthy he too uses objects he find with the building area to create his sculptures.

Nature.

Following some advice I decided to explore the idea of the element earth as my subject matter instead to leaning towards water.

Living in Ireland provides huge opportunities to investigate this element as in seems to cover the majority of the country.
I've only started off by taking a few photo's of interesting aspects of Earth I've seen so far.

Elements?

Just a small update today, no longer sure whether I want to do synaesthesia anymore. After some thought I realized it would be basically impossible without first hand experience with the condition. Obviously I'm disappointed about it because the idea of it really fascinated me. Alas, the challenge proved too much.

On the other had I was playing around with the idea of the elements. The element are everywhere within out space and our sense can pick them up.
At the moment I'm leaning towards water, I love the fluidity of it and think it would be interesting to document.

Recent Work

So the project is to sense my space, and aside from thing like synaesthesia I've been looking literally at things related to sensing space.
The first thing that popped into my head was the first sense of space within the womb and the idea of personal space being akin to the protective sense to space we experience within the womb. But this isn't psychology so I won't delve too deeply into whether or not there's a link between the haha.
The first thing I did to explore this was with sculpture, for I had an idea of doing a piece involving some sort of animal organ and a figure in the fetal position within it. I made a rough outline piece to get a visual of my idea using wire.

Using wire for the first time was interesting and I enjoyed getting out of my comfort zone much more than I thought I would've. (Even if it does dirty your fingers something awful. Mainly I liked how easy it was to shape while still retaining its structure.

Fiddlesticks

I've been going over my blog recently, checking on things and getting them ready for assesment, when I noticed that my first couple of posts were missing. Did some checking up and woe is me, I found out I'd been posting to the wrong blog since I had another unused blog that was automatically connected to my laptop.
Yay for added stress and the time I'm about to waste copying and pasting!