I love creating sketchbooks along-side the students, especially exam groups. I’ve set myself the challenge of responding to the GCSE topic ‘Transformation’ with a project about plants, flowers & natural forms. The two galleries were perfect for gathering inspiration.
I am really interested in the way humans interact with nature and the development of manmade versions that still manage to evoke a similar feeling and emotion. Ofcourse, we need nature to survive but I am intrigued by the way more and more synthetic and faux objects that can often look so real, enter our homes and to what end this will have.
In a creative way and when thinking of Artists and inspiration for my project, I was drawn to representations of nature in painting and sculpture and again was led to consider the subject matter I could use. For centuries, Artists have depicted plants and flowers and their beauty is within the essence of life, decay or death captured by the brush strokes. But how many Artists today paint from life or instead find themselves using something fake or mass produced to achieve the same effect.