Statement:
I went on a train journey from Leicester to London and quickly draw whatever shapes caught my eye, some within the train, most from outside the window. When I got back to the studio I started experimenting with what I could do with these shapes, how I could compose them. I immediately thought of last terms work and began to build on that using these new shapes, to explore that style of composition, which I found from Kandinsky’s work. I used watercolours at first, focusing on basic black lines with fill in colours. When I showed this to a fellow student she said it reminded her of Joan Miro’s work, I have looked at Miro’s work in the past and saw the link straight away.
I decided I wanted
to experiment with more mediums after a while and started trying out different mediums like, acrylic paint,
string and soft pastels. I briefly experimented with wire but didn’t enjoy the
process or the result, I think if I use wire again, especially in this project
I would prefer to attach it to the paper and within a mixed media piece. The
way I was working seemed to revolve a lot around colour and line, I wanted to
try working on either line or colour separately, and see if it was possible,
for me, to keep it separate.
However, I was getting a bit tired of using the
same shapes again and again; the work I was doing felt too controlled and I
wanted to break away from that. I decided to go the complete opposite of this
and throw paint on to paper. It was a way of rebelling against the shapes, the
shapes that I got from the train were easy to repeat or copy. The spatter
patterns that the paint was making – was unique and unexpected – the only thing
I had control over was the volume of paint and how I threw it.
I chose to do a massive piece, (4x1.5m) focusing on
the contrast between the controlled and uncontrolled, merging the old shapes
with the new splattering technique.
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