artsytoasterwaffle

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MY PERSONAL STATEMENT :)

I'm a very passionate person and I love to indulge in the vibrant and intricate aspects of the world around me. The first time I watched the animated TV show Steven Universe, I almost instantly fell in love with its beautifully designed settings and worlds so much that I had the desire to bring its beauty into other parts of my life.

When the time came to start my A Level art personal investigation project, I decided to explore the concept of landscape paintings acting as portals that allow you to escape into whatever world is depicted. Having taken the title from an episode called “Escapism” I explored all sorts of media until I eventually found my strength in gouache. I love intricacy and gouache helped me to incorporate lots of idyllic details into my work as well as maintaining a slight cartoonish style so as to not forget the roots of my inspiration.

My main intention for my escapism project was to make people wish that they could enter my paintings, and I was successful in this by picking techniques and aspects from artists along my journey in order to create the ultimate escape; I was able to capture the blissful and timeless feelings and combine them into an ethereal and whimsical atmosphere. It fills me with love to see other people in awe of the worlds that I've created, so in the later parts of my project I brought more personal influences into it, like my dual heritage (Mauritian and South African) where I created a hybrid out of each country's national flower.

Doing an art foundation course will allow me to further bring beauty into the world with the skills I'd learn, and being able to create things in the future that I wouldn't be able to now would broaden my ability to spread love through my art. I consider myself quite open to new experiences. Having travelled all over the globe to beautiful places like Mauritius, South Africa and Spain throughout my life I tend to meet opportunities with excitement and anticipation whilst taking inspiration from everything, and I would be ecstatic to study a foundation course and try out new techniques and materials as well as developing skills i have already acquired.

Photography is a skill that I am quite experienced in, where I chose to investigate the changes in fashion over the past 100 years for my A Level personal project. However along the way I found it to push me out of my comfort zone. Photography really helped me with my problem solving capabilities as I found myself having to overcome many obstacles such as set building, makeup design, outfit design and much more, but as aforementioned I love to bring out the beauty in things and one of the most rewarding aspects of the A level was getting to see the final products. Just something about these elegant and graceful images really ignited my passion for the subject and made me want to learn more.

I look for creativity and beauty everywhere I go and a lot of my interests stem from art. For about the past 10 years I have had a vast array of interests with my main 2 being toys and films. I am highly invested in the process of creating and designing toys and I find myself attracted to vibrant and brightly coloured ones as they bring me joy with their vivid patterns and hues. The process of stop motion animation and classical hand-drawn is also something that has greatly influenced me for a long time, with my first encounter with the stop motion world being in 2010 when I watched the movie Coraline in cinemas. My passion for toys and stop motion has led me to create a handful of doll-like sculptures out of plastic in the past, however I would love to try creating maquettes out of other materials in the future. I hope to

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Gouache painting exploring the style of Thomas Cole/ romanticism. (start of Escapism stuff)

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Large gouache painting combining the styles of all artists I researched during the Escapism project.

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Large gouache painting exploring the style of Marianne North

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Circular piece inspired by Jenifer H. Prince exploring with more vibrant and unusual colours.

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Acrylic painting with the hybrid flowers in the foreground and obsidian temple in the background.

Sketchbook pages where I created hybrid flowers to elevate the other worldly aspects of my personal project and to bring personal symbolism to the work.

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Acrylic painting of the Obsidian temple from Steven Universe

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Painting influenced by Vail Oxley

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Artist studies of Vail Oxley and Hannibal Mane.

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Acrylic painting inspired by Heronimous Bosch and the Strawberry Battlefield. The strawberries are replaced with lychees to represent my Mauritian heritage.

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Small gouache painting of “The Strawberry battlefield” from Steven Universe

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Small gouache painting of “Mask Island” from Steven Universe (End of Escapism stuff)

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Fauvist / Derain inspired paintings & drawings of Mauritius.

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Ana Mercedes Hoyos inspired acrylic paintings

Ana Mercedes Hoyos studies

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Ink backgrounds inspired by 1920s/1939s cartoons

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My fun, loose experimental style - POSCA pens and digital, mainly depicting music artists or bands that I love

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“I AM STERDAM” - a collection of 3 sketchbook panels depicting personal experiences me and my friends had on our art trip to Amsterdam in 2023. Many of the things drawn in the first and last panel were taken from various pieces we had seen in art galleries.