I enjoy using found materials in my work, especially as new surfaces to paint onto. The way that the paint acts on different textural planes interests me when working in a playful intuitive manner. I often let the found objects guide me in my aesthetic decision making with its possibilities and limits. These are some surfaces I found at Sam Burns scrap yard, I was looking for unnatural/ industrial looking flat greys as well as textural surfaces. 

Art practice 4 and Visual research 4 

Study Plan 

Developing personal skills 

This year I plan to develop practical skills in painting and sculpture working on my resourcefulness in finding alternative materials use. I think using found objects will help me to be pragmatic when making by forcing me to solve practical and aesthetic problems.  

I want to develop skills using photoshop to help me plan and imagine work on a larger scale or in a gallery that I am currently unable to realize in real life. 

The situation will teach me to adapt to limited facilities and unusual working conditions. Although I am very sad about the lack of studio space, I am interested in how this will push my work in another direction e.g displaying work in outdoor spaces, working on a different scale, using found objects. 

I will develop a way of writing about my work succinctly for artist bio’s etc. I may also start to write little stories to go along with paintings and sculptures that will inform the audience about the work by setting an atmosphere or context.   

Planning activity 

I plan to draw every day and see what other work, painting, costume or sculptural grows out of it. My practice is quite intuitive often letting the materials I collect dictate my decisions. I will take trips to Museums and draw from life as well as imagination and pull from these drawings symbols and motifs to transform into different mediums.  

Basically, I don’t what I’m going to do but I will continuously research, draw, paint and build until I have more of an idea. 

Luckily, I live with three other art students and we have decided to hold group crits every Friday in order to share ideas. Everything I do will be documented through photographs and notes in physical and online sketchbooks I think it could also be useful to document work through video. 

Me and my flat mate Kiera Saunders started the Vomiton collective during the lockdown from a necessity to keep making art without accessibility to the materials, facilities of the outside world and possibly an effort to stay sane whilst social distancing. The idea was to use anything and everything going back to our arts and crafts roots to produce alien, animal, plant, spirit creatures, basically anything we deemed to be VOMITOMINOUS.

Our motto is ‘Art made from rubbish isn’t rubbish art.’