David Austin

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I looked through David Austin’s online virtual gallery experience and found it really stimulating, I like his use of colour and texture, the paintings are all very refined and professional looking, they have a lot of energy. I was also enjoyed how each artwork was assigned some music to accompany it because it felt like a very multi-sensory experience. I like his paintings because they feel really technical while still have a feeling of fluidity and intuition.

Davis Austin – Leaning On Itself

David Austin – Moving Through Fire

David Austin – Missing Pieces… A 2020 Retrospective

Dickens 150 Print Open Call Exhibition MPF20

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Over the summer I attended this small exhibition set up by the Medway Print Festival which contained nearly 100 prints produced by 45 printmakers all over the UK. All of the prints were inspired by  ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’ which was Charles Dickens’ final novel which was left incomplete after he suffered a stroke and died in 1870. Being surrounded by so many different prints definitely made me excited to get back into the workshops and start making prints again as this has been something that has been missing from the previous academic year due to the pandemic.

Paul Jerome – Tempus Fugit

Tina Lawlor Mottram – The Often Overlooked Rose Maylie

I really liked the use of texture in this piece, and I liked the eerie vibe it gave off.

Adam Hanson – Through the dead night

This was my favourite print in the gallery, something about the ghostly translucent layers really drew me in, I feel like it really sets the scene of a victorian murder mystery and prompts a lot of questions. I also really liked the use of attaching boats to the frame as this in itself made the frame a part of the work of art and kind of blurred the line between canvas and frame.

Richard Pousette-Dart

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I love Pousette-Dart’s use of texture and layering. I also like how complex the paintings are with so many small details and shapes and patterns that all form relations with one another to create a single unique piece of work. I find this specific work by him very visually appealing because of the complexity and formal relations that each shape creates with one another. Immediately after coming across these drawings I went straight to my sketchbook to try and replicate some of this complexity and texture.

Richard Pousette-Dart – Within the Room (1942)

Richard Pousette-Dart – Nightscape (c. 1948)

Richard Pousette-Dart – Page from Notebook B-114 (Knights of Pythias) c. 1940s

Richard Pousette-Dart – Icarus (1951)

 

Taeyang Hong

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Taeyang Hong – Joke’s on you

Taeyang Hong – Gas Station

Taeyang Hong – Top of the world

I’m a fan of Taeyang Hong, I feel like their paintings tell a personal story and leave a lot up to the imagination. I like the colour palette’s in use, they tend to focus mostly around primary colours which gives the paintings a childlike feel to them.