Mandi Glynn-Jones

While looking at artists that also used the human form and pattern I came across Mandi Glynn-Jones who particularly caught my eye with her style of work. This was my favorite picture of a piece of work of hers, the reason I like this piece of work is because of the patterns she has used and colours as they all compliment each other. Mandi Glynn-Jones has featured on ‘the chat show blog’ where she talked about what the life of an artist is like while answering questions about her work and the SALA Festival and what work she would be displaying in it. The SALA Festival is for artists living in South Australia to display their work, (South Australian Living Artists). While Mandi Glynn-Jones was preparing for this festival she also talks about what inspires her, I found it interesting to see she mentioned MC Escher as one of her inspirations because of his work revolved around Tessellation, which is a repeat of patterns that fit in together again and again. Furthermore she goes on to mention how she is inspired by architecture and history and how she is obsessed with pattern, that she can see it in absolutely everything.

I find the work that ‘the chat show blog’ feature interesting and I adore the style of her drawings. They inspire the way I look at work and give me a new perspective to look at my ‘Pattern and Body Form’ work, I am also interested in looking at using colour. However I do prefer to work in black and white because I feel that it makes the patterns more dramatic and stand out more.  

Pattern and Body Form

I created this design for a screen print so that it would allow me to overlay my pattern over selected pieces of work.

Pattern and Body Form

After looking at parts of the body for my pattern project I started looking at parts of the anatomy such as skulls, eyes and lips. Before I introduced pattern to my ideas I first drew out a basic design of a skull and looked at tone and shape so that I could consider my patterns used to try and suggest tone and shape. Once I had done this I created the design on the left, which is full of different patterns made by various types of lines and shapes. As a finished piece of work I was please with how it turned out and it has opened a new area in which I can take my project into.

Pattern and Body Form

As part of my body and pattern project I have started using different line patterns I could use and interpret to make my ideas and designs look more interesting and sophisticated. I created this by taking a template of my hand and mark making using Indian ink and a biro pen.    

Sgraffito Bowl

My class was set the task in which we had to make a bowl using the Sgraffito process. While making my bowl I also looked at work done by Gary Cattermole because he also uses Sgraffito in his work which involves him scratching words into his bowls, he also does personalised bowls that you can send requests into him for him to make for you to buy. After looking at some of Gary Cattermole’s work it Influenced me to decorate my bowl in a similar way so I decided I would weigh all my objects and write down all the individual weights inside my bowl to represent my objects instead of drawing them or writing down what the objects were. I also used Manganese Oxide on my bowl to highlight the numbers by making them look black against the white slip.  

Pattern and Body Form

This is another piece I have created as part of my people and pattern project in college. I have tried to create a basic portrait of a girl by using different patterns and lines with a biro pen, by changing different patterns I have tried to suggest different parts of the girl such as her hair, face and body. Furthermore I have also left this version quite empty and basic to contrast against another portrait where I went all out on using different patterns aiming to fill as much of the portrait as possible. Over all as a piece of work I am very happy with how it has turned out and I think it works really well contrasted with the other version of the portrait.

This is the other portrait I created to contrast against the other one, as you can see this one has much more going on in terms of pattern as I attempted to go as over the top as I could while considering being able to read the drawing still as a portrait of a girl. I still kept in mind how I was using the pattern to define areas of the portrait and to suggest shading to an extent. As an overall piece I think this portrait looks finish and full compared to the other one which is made to look much more basic and empty.

Pattern and Body Form

My class was recently set a new project in which we had to look at forms of the body using some sketches we had made in life drawing sessions and to use surface pattern. This is a drawing I created by drawing round both of my hands on an A3 piece of paper and used lines and shapes to create my own reoccurring pattern to fill the inside of the hands. The only material I used were a pencil to create a very light outline to create my pattern inside and a biro to make all my lines and shapes with, once I finished I then rubbed out my pencil marks to just leave the biro pattern I had created. As a piece of work I was very pleased with how it turned out and with how all the lines work together. 

This is a drawing I have taken from a life drawing session and duplicated it so that I could try out a few different patterns I was interested in using for different pieces of work. However after finishing these three models I found that they worked well as a piece of work on there own and I was able to suggest tone through using my repeated pattern and lines.    

The Persistence of Memory

         

My class was set a task in which we had to all find a piece of art work each that we all found interesting so that we could write a critique about it. I chose to look at Salvador Dali’s piece of work ‘The Persistence of Memory’. The reason I have chose to look at this piece of work is because I like the look of Surrealist pieces of work. The reason why I find them interesting is because of how the artists express their imaginations and how free the work is to the conscious control of reason and convention and how it has inherited theories such as Sigmund Freud’s model of the subconscious. Artist’s that work with Surrealism aim to capture the experience of a dream, they do this because dreams often play out unexplainable situations with unrelated people, Things and places. The clocks in this painting also represent how time in dreams is warped because they feel like they last longer than what they actually do in reality.   

In addition to this the reason that I like this piece of work is because I like how Salvador Dali has taken clocks and made them appear as if they are melting away which could represent how time slips away from us all and how we cannot control it. However time is a concept that has been created by us all, no other spices on our planet lives their lives concerned about the time of day and deadlines. Furthermore the scene of this painting seems to be set in a wasteland or desert which could symbolize how lost people would feel if we were made to live without the concept of time without having an idea what day, month or year it was, Its hard to even imagine a world without time when you constantly are reminded what time of day it is and time with objects around the world such as clocks, mobile phones and even daily news papers.