Artists I found

I collected several artists from the Level 6 pitch >
http://www.angelaspalmer.com/gallery/nggallery/new/additional-work/

ANGELA PALMER

 

 

 

Although this artist's work is very different from my practice, I was inspired by the structure of the works, the formations of tiny particles and the display of the pieces. During my previous project, I was interested in using light boxes and using acetate/transparent materials to display and print onto. I want to bring this into my current project but expand more on what I can do with it. The layers of transparent materials in the pieces above are really usual, they almost create a sense of the cosmos - but to me they represent the construction of organisms, how tiny particles make up larger forms which can deform and mutate into different shapes through growth and decline. I am considering using sheets of glass and mirrors to create an '"eternal" illusion - making the piece seem like it is continuing indefinately.

 

 

 

MICHAEL PORTER

http://www.michael-porter.co.uk/About/Bio

 

 

 

I can completely love this artist's work! I looked at him breifly during my previous project but it was only really to pick up techniques - but now that I have revisited his work I am completely overwhelmed by the delicacy, the details, the organic elements, the colours and textures that make up his paintings.



Although my practice is focusing more on photography at present, I am working with mix media materials and wanting to form photographs with textures/colours and images applied over the top. This artist is perfect for inspiration because of his detail with organic forms - all which are painted although I shall include collage elements of my own photographs as well as painted over the photograph images themselves.

Porter's work has an element of time and the transition of nature through seasons, in particular images depicting typical representations of different seasons such as fungi being associated with autumn, spring with flowers, winter as death/decline. There are even paintings entitled 'Death of Nature' which emphaises a particular stage in life cycles that I want to illustrate with mix media but also looking at the regrowth/rebirth within the dying transition. The work also shows elements of transparency - a method I want to achieve using collage and working over my photographs - however different from this artist's work, I am to work with transparent/semi-transparent materials inwhich to work on/print on to exemplify the levels of cycles and the change from one into the other.