Statement Of Intent

Statement Of Intent

Seeming as my specialism is fine art specifically painting and drawing I definitely intend to persue these pathways and further develop them as I did in my last project. My initial ideas is mostly a mixture of topics all coming into one over all idea, I want to involve visionary art into my art but as more of a background involvement such as using that sort of art as imagery that connects with the main image or over all topic. I intend to develop this idea but I don't know what into, I'm planning on mainly improvising with my work because it always turns out better because with improvisation you can be more creative with what you are doing and allows you to go further into your ideas. I don't know what I'll end up with at the end of this topic but I know that I have a lot of ideas and that it could go anywhere.
The artists that have inspired me are definitely Martina Hoffman and Pablo Amaringo with their beautiful and complicated looking visionary art that oozes with creativity and also, Wendy Ortiz who draws beautiful images of women and involves nature or natural imagery within her work in a visonary way which is something I want to investigate.
I am also planning on collecting primary research, I'm going to go into the town centre of Blackburn where I see different people every day and take pictures of people's faces in different ways and these people will have to be unique looking for example, have tattooes, piercings, wacky hair or different ethnicity so basically I'll be taking pictures of the strange and beautiful. Then my plan is to redraw/paint/alter these images whilst adding imagery on them possibly around the image, as a background or even in the place of a tattoo. I definitely want to investigate collage again because I don't think I did it justice in my last project whilst creating these portraits of people. But this time I want to create larger more complicated pieces with more layers and experimenting with more materials and maybe on different surfaces than I'm used to. Over a long period of time I've been collecting scraps of different materials and pieces of paper, card, fabrics etc in preparation for something like this. I also want to involve nature into my project and so more primary research will be involved such as gathering photo's of local wildlife, plants and flowers and even collecting leaves and plants and using them in my work which I think will look really good but I'm not too sure yet.
Hopefully my final outcome will be a large mixture of techniques on a canvas or large piece of paper with a thick book of experimentation to back it all up, I don't know exactly what I want to end up with yet and to be honest I don't want to know because I don't want to have everything planned before I even start. I want to improvise and experiment as much as possible with a lot of things and even have a go at drawing men which I am really bad at. Alls I know is that I've got a lot of ideas and my project could go a number of ways which I personally think is a good thing.
During my project I think I'll be using a number of employability skills such as a lot of organisation skills such as collecting lots of research, planning out what I want to end up with, approaching people and involving others in my work (team work) and definitely being creative & turning a topic into my own and also a lot of independant work, making time for such work and definitely a lot of effort and time being put into it.