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Switzerland
Painting, Ink on Paper
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I am fascinated by train travel commuting and how it is the norm for a lot of people living in London. Personal space is a bit of a luxury. This particular scene is from a journey around 10pm in February 2019, whilst commuters are still making their way home only to head out again at 6am. It's so interesting to people watch on the train; the woman engrossed in her kindle; and the man snoring with head back and mouth wide open behind! I like the different colours from the ambient lighting and the perspective lines from the structure of the train as it makes an interesting and vibrant composition along with the people. The painting was created from a photo that I traced first with black Indian ink and then painted with Winsor & Newton watercolours.
Painting:Ink on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:8.5 W x 10.8 H x 0 D in
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Switzerland
My work is about the intensity of the city and how we navigate through it with symbols, images, maps and sounds. I often feel overwhelmed in the city as we are constantly bombarded with noise and I am particularly interested in depicting what I see as crowded and claustrophobic commuter situations, but others regard as normal conditions on their daily journey to work. My work generally starts at a tube station in London where I will draw or photograph anything that catches my eye along the journey. Rather like a flâneur, I stroll along observing society, waiting for things to find or interest me. Similar to the Surrealists, I love flea markets. In the 1930s Andre Breton, the leader of the surrealists, was fascinated by pieces that were regarded as being of no use anymore. He would go to the flea markets in the hope of being ‘called’ by certain items and pick up old ear trumpets and elephants’ feet and lots of African pieces too. Strolling through these flea markets led the Surrealists to understand that their inner desires, through our subconscious, affects our actions, decisions, and surroundings. Breton believed that our everyday encounters and chance findings are actually psychologically pre-ordained by our subconscious. When we find objects, they are already existing embodiments of our inner desires and that they just need to be found, in a chance encounters. My work engages with what happens next to the single drawings and photos that I have made, when I arrive home. It is important for me to rearrange them and create a new image combining and placing them, in order to express my feelings and experiences during the visit. I combine outline tracings of photographs I have taken, with drawings from my sketchbook and paste them together in layers with different amounts of opacity. When placing the images together I always aspire to make an aesthetically pleasing image but also to let the unexpected happen, for example when a girl’s head shows through a layer in just the right place. Even though the final images are not made in a sketchbook, I like to keep a nuance of the sketchbook in my work as the intention of going out in the world and drawing, is where my work stems from. Oceanic feeling has also had an influence on my work which is the sensation of being at one with the universe. For me it is something I feel in nature on the top of a mountain.
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