Portfolio

Document the day: Exploration of hands of the people around Blackburn using cyanotypes and photography, identifying their hands, their age, gender, race or occupation.

Document the day: Experimentation of cyanotypes on receipts as a way of reflecting identity through the items bought whilst challenging and exploring the concept of what is a ‘portrait’.

 

Document the day: Experimental hand studies exploring mediums, techniques and processes.

Document the day: These pieces are an extension of the previous hand studies, purposefully unfinished to represent the idea that we can only gather a glimpse of someone's personality/identity.

Document the day: Development work inspired by Marcus Harvey and Chuck Close using fingerprints and grid systems as propositions for paintings.

Fruit: Dry point prints from observational studies using non-dominant hand.

Fruit: Cyanotype and photogram experimental work that explore textures and layering to emphasise the strength and femininity which the pomegranate fruit represents.

Fruit: Experimentation during textiles workshop using free stitch onto hand-dyed fabric to achieve mould-like colours and textures. 

Fruit: Initial sketches and designs for lino prints.

Fruit: First explorations using lino print process, work explores aspects of scale, composition and colour palette to instigate narrative.

Fruit: Ceramic work exploring the links between feminism and fruit  focusing on textures, photo decals and oxides on certain tiles, influenced by Camilla Crittenden’s ‘Blue Hour’.

Fruit: Planning and research into the links between feminism and fruit, taking inspiration from Morris and Pre-Raphaelite painters.

Spirits of the Earth:  Exploration into chiaroscuro and the harsh contrasts that can be achieved while presenting the human form.

Spirits of the Earth: Photographic development work inspired by Igor Shcherbakov, exploring performance, composition and colour.

Spirits of the Earth : Final oil painting that showcases the fluidity of applying looser strokes in comparison to the foreground.

Walking : I began my research into this project by exploring the physical act of walking and created a triptych to represent the stages of a journey.

Walking : A pastel and graphite piece influenced by Benoit Paillé’s flash photography.

Walking : Photographic investigation into the way humans leave an imprint on the world.

Walking: Sketchbook studies that use a range of mixed media and inspirational starting points including Ed Fairburn's drawings on maps.

Walking: Moths and butterflies are a representation of the fragility of our ecosystems, it doesn’t take a lot for them to collapse, the reflection of the wing onto the subject's face shows how much of an impact human activity can make.

Walking: Digital compositions making connections between environments and location.

Walking: Development of final piece using coloured pencils and graphite, utilising objects and materials found and seen on the walks.

Walking: Final mixed media piece, coloured pencil and collage on wood.