Summer Work, May 2017 – September 2017

                Over summer, beginning this project with only ‘Floral Geometrics’ to work with was more challenging than I initially thought. This is due to how literal it is. I have always struggled with thinking in ways that aren’t literal and so decided to work in baby steps and start where I knew I didn’t want to end up. My first thought was to do with tattoos, since I have a floral tattoo myself and had considered having geometrics combined. Unfortunately this didn’t provide me with much inspiration to work with so I quickly moved into paint which I don’t normally use. I also had the idea of using acetate quite early on because of its transparent nature which I decided to continue to use in other ways to link with floral geometry. These worked quite well and I continued to use it throughout my drawing.

                One floral geometric artist stood out more to me than the others – even though the idea I had from her was very small. Julia Wright uses lots of floral geometrics in her work but I used her for reasons not to do with her usual practice of jewellery; but photography. The raindrops in the photographs were so perfectly formed that I found a new way to bring geometric shapes into my floral drawings, while also venturing into mark making (which is another area where I struggle).

 

                I think a common theme with my summer work was trying to develop areas that I enjoy but struggle with. It was something I wanted to do while I had the opportunity of only focusing on drawing.