At the beginning of my art exploration during GCSE’s I worked in a very precise and tight manner creating tonal and biro drawings as they were the only two mediums that I felt worked successfully as the tones allowed me to create a 3D realistic still life drawings. I looked into traditional artists including Tamara de Lempicka who creating paintings of women in an Art Deco style to express her ideas on “liberated female sexuality”.

Then when I moved onto my A levels and foundation course, I began to target my work towards the abstract movement and artists such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko as I was fascinated by their use of “gestural brush-strokes or mark-making, and the impression of spontaneity”. I was excited by the idea of being expressive through the use of various tools and creating textures and surfaces due to different paint thickness.

However, I am currently intrigued in evolving Fred Hatts’ figurative drawings and his art style of movement and rhythm through his use of crayons on various surfaces including canvas, cartridge paper and black paper. The style I now work in is very fast and expressive, as I believe this spontaneous way of working allows me to express myself fully through my art work, compared to when I tried to control what I was drawing, it looked too manipulated and planned out. I want to continue creating abstract expressionist paintings and evolve it further by painting it onto various surfaces including walls and metal to steer away from the traditional method of painting.

http://www.theartstory.org/artist-de-lempicka-tamara.htm

Fred Hatt, drawing with energy

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/abstract-expressionism