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| Mhairi Nelis BA (Hons) Fine Art Ian Eadie Award for Painting, Duncan of Jordanstone, 2003 The focus of my work has been an ongoing experiment, highlighting interests in Outsider Art, Art as Therapy, Creativity, Automatic drawing, Mark-making, Abstract Expressionism, Perceptions of Painting, Uncertainty, Un-contrived, Honest, Intuitive, Responsive, Fresh, Uninhibited, Aesthetic choice, Personal language, Appeal, Repulsion, Ugliness, Joy, Living, Everything. Ultimately of creating a painting or drawing (if it can legitimately be called that) free for any deliberately manipulated visually representational forms. They are part of a process of attempting to rid the painted surface of contrived images, in-order to possibly allow a personal artistic vocabulary to develop. To allow natural lyricism, marks and motifs to make there own way to the surface. I have become aware through my studies that the afore mentioned attributes will undoubtedly emerge through whatever medium an artist should choose - and it is of my choosing that I am attempting to let them come - as I see it - without any false agenda. These paintings are part of a series of thirty (all 50cm square, mixed-media on board). It was important to the process that they should all begin as the same surface and size - to be sure I was not responding solely to the texture or shape, also to induce discipline to the approach. At anytime it was apparent to me that I was using learned representational drawing skills or was making a 'pretty picture' from understood visual mechanics I immediately deliberately unsettled/altered the piece. I stopped working on them simply when I 'felt' I should. |
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