Sara Risley https://www.facebook.com/Sara-Risley-Fine-Art-108902322494785/timeline/
These are two fascinating artists that I got attracted to while on Facebook. The first one; Paul Anslow; produces fully packed dynamic mostly digital images with titles like "Subliminal" or "Synapsis" or "Radian" with responding comments like "there is a lot of crackling of electrical sparks". I was mostly interested in his sources where he sought for inspiration as the Radiolarians (which he described as a
form of plankton related to
diatoms which are extremely small, but perfectly formed skeletons) or the Spumellaria (From Ernst Haeckel's 1904 "Artforms of Nature"). He calls these discoveries "mysterious little sculptures" and calls nature "the greatest artist of all"
I feel close to his research in the sense that I have often looked at nature for inspiration and I believe that my paintings are abstract residuals of the details found in the nature that surrounds me (corals,seashells,trees,flowers,cobwebs,and so much more..) I feel a strong connection to the beach as this is a mysterious place full of findings. Maybe I should start by working from my collection for my next project?
Sara Risley describes herself as "a crazy lady who likes crazy colors and does crazy things with her camera and her paint!" I like this introduction of her as a fun loving colourful person who is carefree of her art. I seriously want to shed myself from the seriousness of MA3 and this is getting so difficult. I also like her inspiration as " Sky reflected in puddle"; "metal reflecting flowers"; "a city building reflecting the river";"Rust at Rock Botttom"or "shadow on stairs on the riverwalk". Her sources are unusual; however she makes sense of the mundane in a sincere manner. In the critical reviews on her series of acrylic paintings called "My Disturbance" there are talks about how and what she calls disturbances. Direct paintings; the brushstrokes being "a record of the artist’s gesture" which are further worked out afterwards through photography or digitally. (Disturbances in the Field) I like the way her art was described as "carrying the viewer’s brain to a place that is, by definition, different than what the artist felt, and different still than the viewer next to him." and the questions behind purpose, abstraction, meaning, the familiar and the recognisable; elluding the specific narrative. These are refreshing thoughts and concepts about what could also be adopted.(http://sararisley.com/news.html)
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