Annabelle Cheung Exeter

House

As an artist, my main themes are self-exploration and reflecting on the past. Through my work, I aim to delve into my consciousness and bring to light aspects of myself that may be hidden or unexamined.

My pieces often take the form of self-portraits or representations of my emotions through refined and hyper-realistic colour pencil work to express myself. I view my art as a form of inner expression, allowing myself and others to process and make sense of my thoughts visually and tangibly. Considering my constant attention to detail, coloured pencils enable me to precisely illustrate even the finest lines or dots through their fine tips.

YEAR 11 ART EXHIBITION BOOK | 2022 - 2023

The Y11 mock exam outcome is one of the best reflections of my intentions in art, as it can be viewed from two angles – a dual portrait of myself in different stages of my life and another of my mother in various stages of her life. I believe that art does not have a singular nor fixed meaning behind it; the best pieces of art are often left ambiguous, allowing the audience room for observation, interpretation and conclusion. Therefore, I hope my audience can develop their rendition of this piece.

These two years of experimentation and discovery of my art style have allowed me to find my strengths and get to know artists from around the world over time, allowing me to gain confidence and unique ideas for my projects in future. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” –

Thomas Merton

Ben Newman Luksic Delaware House

I have done clay work and a palette knife painting because I like the physicality of it and the ability to touch and change the work with ease and the expressiveness of it. I like using bright colours in my work because I like to make them happy and for me colourful pieces show happiness. I also like using architecture as it has always been an interest of mine; I like buildings.

I like using a mix of media and always doing something different, such as lino reduction, clay, pallet knife and acrylic. I like to have my work show what I currently like and as well to be creative and different.

I would like my audience to view my work in an open mind way and be willing to look at things from a different point of view.

Camila Kuri Exeter House

During my Pre-IB studies, I learnt the art of photography, shading, tones, oil and acrylic painting, and so on. I learnt how to paint using various approaches and instruments.

For my latest project, Lock, I separated the concept into sections where we investigated how it combines with art, poetry, photography, and sculpture. I researched numerous artists' concepts and adapted their techniques into my paintings and photography. We sketched using pens and paper, and painted with various paints.

Year

11 ART EXHIBITION BOOK | 2022 - 2023

Painting using acrylics and oils piqued my curiosity since they can be layered on top of each other. I preferred wet mediums, such as paint. Yes, the interaction between media and ideas differs. Because if you have a concept, you must decide which form of media would best suit it.

All of my artwork reflects myself, and I am proud of all of it, which binds me to my artwork. There are no motives in any work, but I want my artwork to bring joy to people's and my own eyes. When my audience sees my artwork, I want them to appreciate it. I want people to understand and experience what I was thinking when I painted or sketched.

We encountered several artists and their interpretations of art on our art trip to Geneva. I developed a strong interest in art on that trip because I found it incredibly intriguing, and I was eager to return and analyse all of the artworks I saw.

Casper Bonnier Belvedere House

Hello, I am Casper Bonnier. I have been interested in art since a young age when my parents (my mother a ceramist and my dad an architect) would take me to museums.

My first love of art was a painting by Jackson Pollock, it had inspired me to try splashing paint around, I was 5 back then, for me it was the best art form.

Since then I have dabbled with different media in school and at home, I have never liked doing the same thing as others so when the teacher told me to do a portrait I drew a car, all the time I thought out of the box. I think this is where I found my natural talent in being weird so I guess you can say that my art is a representation of me trying to detangle myself from the strings of the norm and cut chains that hold me here in school.

YEAR 11 ART EXHIBITION BOOK | 2022 - 2023

Chloe Gazal Le Cerf House

I have experimented with lots of different media, but the ones that I have continued to use the most are using acrylic paint and painting expressively, with a palette knife.

I have experimented with lots of different media, whether that be sketching with a pencil, watercolours and printing. I have stuck with this media because I have the most fun using it.

I usually use bright and realistic colours because, if I am painting a portrait I like to use realistic colours, but making these colours I like to try to make them as bright as possible so it stands out on the page.

Year

11 ART EXHIBITION BOOK | 2022 - 2023

A theme that I have explored repeatedly is portraits and frozen in time movement images. Penny Warden has a big influence on me as she inspired me to try/start painting expressly.

There is a relationship between the media and ideas I use; the quick movement of the palette knife represents the movement of the pictures I have taken.

Lots of the pieces I have painted or drawn have been my family members and that is what has tied lots of my work together to make a cohesive body of work.

Cris Favier Teran Delaware House

Throughout the year I have experimented with various themes and ideas, a couple that stand out to me personally are the still-life still composition and carved out pieces, the reduction print, created from scratch.

Ultimately, my prized possession is the piece I painted during the art exam in a period of 10 hours. For this piece, I had to take the ideas and theme of another artist to help guide my own process.

Before this course, I was not very in touch with the creation of art. My parents have always been fanatics of art, unfortunately for me, this meant going to galleries and museums everywhere we went along with meeting artists.