Artwork Documentation and Gallery

Through layered oil images I have explored what a portrait is and a young person’s realities that might be unapparent from a straight “mug-shot”.

(Please see the Artist Statement page for further information)




Work 2007-13


Summer 2013, BA (Hons) Third Year Degree Show

For Details and Online Catalogue: http://cardiffmetdegreeshow2013.tumblr.com/

Degree Show Exhibition, 2013.
Howard Gardens Art Campus, Cardiff Metropolitan University
June 8th-14th


 

Spring 2013, BA (Hons) Third Year Assessment

'Unapparent Realities: Piece 1', 2013.
Oil on board. 81cmx122cm

'Unapparent Realities: Piece 2', 2013.
Oil on board. 81cmx122cm

'Unapparent Realities: Piece 3', 2013.
Oil on board. 81cmx122cm

'Realistic Perceptions: Piece 1 Edge Detail', 2013.

'Realistic Perceptions: Piece 3 Edge Detail', 2013.

'Beyond The Face: Piece 1 Finished Portrait Layer', 2013.
Oil on board. 81cmx122cm

'Piece 1 Portrait Detail', 2013.

'Beyond The Face: Piece 2 Finished Portrait Layer', 2013.
Oil on board. 81cmx122cm

'Piece 2 Portrait Detail', 2013.

'Beyond The Face: Piece 3 Finished Portrait Layer', 2013.
Oil on board. 81cmx122cm

'Piece 3 Portrait Detail', 2013.

'Under Layer 1, Hidden Realties of Young People'. Painted From Theatre Set Model Scene 1 2013.
Oil on board. 81cmx122cm

 

'Under Layer 2, Hidden Realties of Young People'. Painted From Theatre Set Model Scene 2 2013.
Oil on board. 81cmx122cm

 'Under Layer 3, Hidden Realties of Young People'. Painted From Theatre Set Model Scene 3, 2013.
Oil on board. 81cmx122cm

'Background Detail', 2013.

 'Drawn-in Outlines Ready For Under Layer Detail', 2013.
Oil on board. 3 x 81cmx122cm

'Painted Background', 2013.
Oil on board. Each piece 81cmx122cm

 'Theatre Set Model, Scene 1', 2013.
Watercolour paint on card. 30cmx40cmx25cm

 'Theatre Set Model, Scene 2', 2013.
Watercolour paint on card. 30cmx40cmx25cm

 'Theatre Set Model, Scene 3', 2013.
Watercolour paint on card. 30cmx40cmx25cm

 'Social Art: Strain and Pressure', 2013.
Oil on board. 81cmx122cm

'Bookend Spines Experiment', 2013.
Watercolour paint on paper collage and print. A5

 'Pattern Experiment - Overlapping Pattern', 2013.
Printed paper and photo collage. A4

'Pattern Experiment - Foreground Pattern', 2013.
Printed paper and photo collage. A5

'Pattern Experiment - Background Edge', 2013.
Watercolour paint on paper and sari print. A6

'Pattern Experiment - Background Pattern', 2013.
Watercolour paint on fabric print. A6

'Picabia Outline Transparencies Piece, India Contrasts', 2013.
Fine-liner on India photograph. A4

 

 

 'Picabia Outline Transparencies Piece, Portrait Representative Landscape', 2013.
Fine-liner on Switzerland photograph. A4

 'Picabia Outline Transparencies Piece, Africa Representative Landscape', 2013.
Fine-liner on Ghana photograph. A4

 'Picabia Outline Transparencies Piece, Africa Overlapped', 2013.
Fine-liner on Ghana photograph. A4

 'Picabia Outline Transparencies Piece, Inner Life', 2013.
Fine-liner on Ghana photograph. A4

'Picabia Outline Transparencies Piece, Hamlet', 2013.
Fine-liner on copy of John Waterhouse's 1889 Ophelia. A4

 

 

'Picabia Outline Transparencies Experiment, Wuthering Heights', 2013.
Fine-liner on copy of David Cox's Moorland Landscape: Shepherd and Sheep. A5

 'Detail Of Life Drawing Painted Piece', 2013.
Oil on canvas board. 122cmx162cm

 'Detail Of Life Drawing Painted Piece', 2013.
Oil on canvas board. 122cmx162cm

 

 'Life Drawing Painted Piece (Layer 3)', 2013.
Oil on canvas board. 122cmx162cm

 

 'Layer 2 Of Life Drawing Painted Piece', 2013.
Oil on canvas board. 122cmx162cm

 

'Layer 1 Of Life Drawing Painted Piece', 2013.
Oil on canvas board. 122cmx162cm

 

 'Six Life Drawings, In Composition To Work From', 2013.
Pencil on paper. Each A5

 

 'Place Through Colour, Ghana Portrait', 2013.
Oil on board. 40cmx60cm

 

 

 'Detail of Ghana Portrait', 2013.

 

'Colour Background Portrait Outline Experiment', 2013.
Oil on board. 25cmx35cm

 

'Colour Ground Portrait Outline Experiment', 2013.
Oil on board. 25cmx35cm

 

'Colour Portrait Experiment', 2013.
Oil on board. 25cmx35cm

 

 

'Complimentary Colours Experiment', 2013.
Oil on board. 25cmx35cm

 

'Portrait Experiment', 2013.
Oil on board. 25cmx35cm

 

'Portrait Experiment', 2013.
Oil on board. 25cmx35cm

 

 

'Portrait Experiment', 2013.
Oil on board. 25cmx35cm

'Portrait Experiment', 2013.
Oil on board. 25cmx35cm
 

'Photographic Portrait', 2013.
Photograph on board. A4

 'Colour Effects Experiment', 2013.
Watercolour on paper. A4

'Colour Effects Experiment', 2013.
Watercolour on paper. A4

'Colour Effects Experiment', 2013.
Watercolour on paper. A4

 

'Colour Effects Experiment', 2013.
Watercolour on paper. A4

 

 

 

 Autumn 2012, BA (Hons) Third Year Assessment

 
 

'No Child Should Grow Up Expecting To Do Badly, Social And Educational Disadvantage Piece. Child Imagining And Relating Himself To The Giant, Not Jack', 2012.
Oil on canvas. 30cmx140cm 

 

'Fairy-tale Piece Based on Grimm's Tales, Specifically The Tale Of Mother Holle', 2012.
Oil and Dutch leaf on canvas. 100cmx120cm
 
 

'Detail of Grimm's Tales Piece', 2012.

 

 

'Beginnings of Grimm's Tales Piece', 2012.

'Finished Illustration Piece, Based On Enid Blyton's Enchanted Woods', 2012.
Mounted in a tree silhouette made of texture covered canvas on cardboard, hung on hinges. 120cmx160cm

'Curtains Of Illustration Piece Pulled Back. Layers From Back To Front Tell The Story', 2012.
Pen and paint on heavyweight cellophane sheets, hung from brackets. 120cmx160cm

'Detail Of 3 Page Layers of Illustrated Story', 2012.
 
 

'Narrative Piece Based On Roundabout Land In Enid Blyton's Enchanted Woods, From The Faraway Tree Series', 2012.
Oil on canvas. 40cmx80cm

'Life Drawing - 2 Hour Pose', 2012.
Pencil on paper. A1

'Self-Portrait', 2012.
Oil on canvas board. 15cmx25cm

'Scene From The Railway Children Stage Production', 2012.
Oil on canvas. 50cmx50cm

'Transcription Of Picasso's Ma Jolie', 2012.
40cmx60cm

'Set Design For Romeo ad Juliet, Inspired By Picasso's Painting Of His Lover', 2012.
Watercolour paint on card. 20cmx30cm

'The Hidden Messages In The Romeo and Juliet Set', 2012.
Print and ink on paper. A4 

 
 

 

Spring 2012, BA (Hons) Second Year Assessment

 

 

'Wood Landscape Installation', 2012

Oil on Canvased wall and handmade organic forms. 2.5mx2.5m

 

'Painted Detail of Installation', 2012

Oil on Canvased wall. 2.5mx2.5m

'Organic Form - Stinging Nettle', 2012.
Watercolour paint on cartridge paper and wire. 20cmx35cm

'Textile Study of Maquette', 2012.
Fabric and net pinned to canvas. 15cmx20cm

'Wood Landscape Installation Maquette', 2012.
Real leaves and trunk, constructed flowers, bluebells, grass, moss, fungi, mushrooms and leaf. 50cmx30cm

'Organic Form - Mushrooms', 2012.
Painted clay, natural mushroom prints on paper and fabric folded concertina. Each 10cmx4cm

'Organic Form - Bluebells', 2012.
Wire wrapped in thread, paper and fabric flower heads. 15cmx15cm

'Light Breaking Through Trees', 2012.
Oil on canvas. 40cmx100cm

'Bright Portrait', 2012.
Oil on canvas. 60cmx60cm

'Close-up of Bright Portrait', 2012.

'Detail of Bright Portrait', 2012.

'Photo worked from for Bright Portrait', 2012.

'Cardiff Bay at Night', 2012.
Watercolour paint on cartridge paper. A3

'Transcription of David Atkins Cityscape Piece', 2012.
Oil on canvas. 40cmx60cm

'Transcription of David Atkins Landscape Piece', 2012.
Oil on canvas. 10cmx25cm.



2011

'Seeing Off the Soldiers', 2011.
 Oil on canvased wall. 150cmx180cm

 'Perspective Detail', 2011.

 'Jumping Nude Figure',  2011.
Oil on Canvas. 80cmx120cm

 'Face Detail', 2011.

 'Torso Detail', 2011.

'Self Portrait', 2011.
Oil on canvas. 40cmx60cm

 

'Transcription of Vatican Galleries Figure', 2011.
Oil on Canvas. 90cmx120cm

Art Assessment 2011

'Female Figure', 2011.
Oil on canvas. 90cmx120cm

'Figurative Nude Painting', 2011.
Oil on canvas. 80cmx120cm



2010

 'Lake Volta Island Village, Ghana', 2010.
Oil on canvas. 50cmx70cm



'Teaching, Ghana', 2010.
Oil on canvas. 40cmx70cm



'Ghana Pupils', 2010.
Pencil Drawing. A5



'Lake Volta Island Village, Ghana', 2010.
Photograph on mount board. A4

'Lake Volta Island Village, Ghana', 2010.
Photograph on mount board. A4

'Lake Volta Island Village, Ghana', 2010.
Photograph on mount board. A4

'Portland Sunset', 2010.
Oil on canvas. 80cmx120cm

'Textile Wood Scene', 2009-2010.
Fabric, lace and net on canvased board. 15cmx20cm


 

2007-9

Studio Support Book, 2009.
Photos and coloured graphite pencil drawings. 56cmx70cm

'Coastline Figure', 2009.
Oil on canvas. 80cmx120cm

Studio Support Book, 2009.
The work of Tai-Shan Schierenberg and fine-liner drawings. 56cmx70cm

'Female Life Drawing', 2009.
Coloured graphite pencil and chalk on sugar paper. 28cmx35cm

'Clothed Figure, from life', 2008.
Oil on canvas. 80cmx120cm

 'Life Class Painting', 2008.
Oil on silk covered board. 25cmx40cm
 

 

'Waterscape Screens', 2008.
Oil on canvas boards. Each screen 50cmx150cm 

 

 

'Scottish Sunset', 2008.
Oil and fabric on canvas. 60cmx90cm



 

'Stormy Coast', 2008.
Oil on canvas. 40cmx50cm

 

 

'Wall Hanging', 2007.
Textile techniques, applications and creations on fabric. 40cmx150cm

'Dress Detail', 2007-8.
Textile techniques on shot silk. 15cmx25cm