Leah Bartholomew- Hybrid Research
- May 5, 2018
- 2 min read
Looking for inspiration for this project I have found difficult as my main inspiration is from the castle museum and country and eastern museum and the tea pots and prints they have, therefore I've been focusing more on this element of inspiration compared to actual artists.
However, I came across the artist Leah Bartholomew, she's a artist and designer in Australia, 'her artworks are an abstract representation of the beauty found in the landscape and life of her local environment', my work being similar as I have looked at plants in my garden and in the landscape around me to create drawings of floral designs, her technique of layering her work onto shapes and colour is also similar to mine and has inspired me within my work, layering shapes and my designs.
Although her prints are different to mine, these are inspiring to me and are my style of work, bold prints with vibrant coloured shapes and background. She uses torn, coloured paper creating collages, placing these colours and shapes to how she feels in her surroundings and feelings, 'puzzle of unexpected colours and feelings that take shape based on the influences of her environment and mood.' Her colour scheme is chosen in response to her surroundings and feelings creating large paintings, 'these collages may represent the colours of the weather, or how the warmth of the rocks on the beach felt, or the blinding brightness of an electric blue sky', the fact she uses her senses and surroundings as her main inspiration is interesting and a good way to look for inspiration, it's an easy way but also can be interesting what you can produce from a certain feeling or emotion, how different the piece of work can be.
This piece of work is called, 'I think of you', using her usual style of bold, vibrant prints and colours, she places her work in a context of an interior space, the other obejcts and room being quite plain and simplistic, enabling her work to be the focal point, this is something I like to portray in my work, looking at the context of my own work.
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