Works in Progress...

Given the opportunity to get going in the studio, this is what I'm working on this week.

This test-piece on cardboard incorporates my new approach to working in paint and collage- I am using strips from my copied collages rather than using pieces of buildings etc as I was last year. I also want to experiment with cutting a section out of a different shape; this module is, for me, very much about experimenting with the imagery and my approach to collaging and incorporating that material.

(Apologies for slightly wonky photo!) This is one of my paintings on sheet metal (this example is on aluminium). It measures 500 x 500mm.

Paint and paper collage on steel. 500 x 500mm.

In addition to these I want to begin to experiment with screenprinting and photo-etching. However, I want to speak to my tutors about this before I begin such an extensive body of work in that area.

Feedback please!!

New Work for the Final Year of Uni!

I've had a very busy start to the week, putting in extra long days. Our current project is only 5 weeks long (well, 4 1/2 now!) and we have to create 6 finished works in that time!

My studio is now back up and running (as you can see from the mess!). I've been making collages in several sketchbooks with imagery related to Modernist and Brutalist building designs.
Today, I decided to make enlarged photocopies of some of my favourite compositions to see how they look when they're a bit bigger- I'm planning to make them up to A1 or even A0 in the end!

These are all black and white photocopies of original photo collages. I am thinking of also copying them in colour to see if this improves them or not. Any other thoughts would be much appreciated- I've changed my settings so that anyone can comment so hopefully this will help!