Today I had a one-to-one tutorial with artist tahmina. I didn't know anything about her work, other than the one showcased on the tutorial sheet, but it seems that Zoe allocated people who have similar interests to the artist together since I quickly realised we dealt with common grounds. She observed my work first, as I showed her my sketchbook and the small number of paintings I had in the studio. She immediately recognised that I used resin on the neighbourhood wood panel, since she works with resin a lot as well. She strongly warned me about the dangers of using resin: for me to get a respiration filter mask, and to always work outside or in a well-ventilated room where others are doing the same thing as me. This was important as I have done it inside with no mask last time and it made me feel a bit ill, and the smell lingers inside when in a closed room. (I proceeded to purchase the mask after this). She took particular interest in the fox painting I did for psychogeography. It was weird, the two foxes are painted in a different style, the ink wash background was good, she liked it very much. She asked me what subject I deal with mainly. I said trauma, since this was what I came to the last time I tried to define what I was interested in, which was way back in foundation. It definitely is still in my work now, she said she could certainly see it here. The first thing she said to me was she is reminded of outsider art (art from the mentally ill / children) (e.g. Henry Darger) when she looks at my work. She also encouraged me to use watercolour on canvas because there's something so wrong about that. I didn't need to feel the pressure of going large-scale, plus there's limited studio space... her work is medium sized as well, which I was shocked by since the painting looked huge in the picture. It was only in the presentations after about their work that I realised how mixed media tahmina's pieces were. They were quite abstract as well. Anyway, she recommended me to go to this exhibition in pilar corrias for the German artist Sophie van hellerman's New Waves show to see how freely she uses her paints. (I went after)
Yes, I was quite inspired after hearing the presentations from the RCA graduates. Erin Hughes' sim collages made me want to take video game screenshots and make work out of it as well.
Yes, I was quite inspired after hearing the presentations from the RCA graduates. Erin Hughes' sim collages made me want to take video game screenshots and make work out of it as well.
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| Sim Collages 2 Magdalena Blasinska's and Tahmina Negmat's works inspired me to deal with the form and materiality of paint itself. I want to experiment with thicker paint.   http://magdablasinska.com / http://www.erinlaurahughes.com / https://www.tahminanegmat.com |