Fine art round up

Started with drawings of 4 big installations - my eye was drawn to images of swings, mountain climbers, scaffolding, people stretching out to pull up other people and buoys connected to ropes.


First paintings also inspired by the new film about the German artist Anselm Kiefer - Over our cities grass will grow.




For my final pieces I wanted to explore the tension in the ropes when a swing swings, some childhood memories of being on the swing, that moment when you reach the highest point on the curve and you feel you are weightless, the rush from the speed of the swing and the reliance on the strength and flexibility of the rope.


The 3D sculpture from drawings and a cardboard box looked like this and was best viewed by video - as you moved around it interesting shapes and colours would come into view - not always the ones you expected.





I used a plumb bob to almost connect the sculpture to the floor




This lead to the view of the bob at floor level - with some of my previous paint drips following the line of the plumb bob in the background.






The bob had a similar tension to the rope on the swing and so my final pieces also explored this.






The swing paintings mixed painting, drawing and 3d scupture

Use of a found object also changes the feel of the final piece.



Lessons learnt

1 Fine art involves less tutor-led direction - more freedom for the artist.

2 Processes used in other rotations can be used to good effect in fine art.

3 Take care with backgrounds and use animation techniques to produce multiple images.