YEAR 11 ART EXHIBITION BOOK | 2022 - 2023

Either way, it was a whole lot of watching and no painting. I often doubted my abilities to create art but as the year progressed and my knowledge and practice increased so did my confidence in tandem.

I want my audience to experiment with my art in their own ways, whether that be in layers, dissecting the colours and shapes and strokes or in my preferred method which is looking at everything at once. In the second option, I feel like my audience will be able to see everything working in synchrony to create this piece of art.

Individually my pieces may seem very different and unrelated but they have two things in common, they were made by me and form a conglomerate of pieces all made with the same core ideas and techniques. Hard to notice at first glance but clear after revision.

I have plenty, and I mean plenty of things to work on and improve, I have not even scratched the tip of the iceberg.

When I caught wind of the idea of me sitting down for 10 hours with the single aim of producing the single best art piece ever created by me I was unsure on what or how I was going to carry out such a task, but once I sat down the ideas flowed and the movements started like a well-oiled machine.

Filo Sardagna Alpina House

I have explored many media in art and overall I really liked the linocut technique and also the colour pencils even though they are a simple way of making art I find it really expressive and interesting

The relationship between the media that I normally use are the linocut and the colour pencils because they match with my ideas because I know how to work well with that type of media.

I didn't really get inspired by any outside artist or anything because I have clear ideas on my art capacities and I just try to make the best of it and with the colour pencils and linocut I like the stuff that I can do. My work is mostly repetitive because I always do the same type of stuff based on similar ideas. For example, I really like football. That's why most of them are based on football.

Fletcher Willis Clairmont House

This year I have explored multiple themes in my artwork such as compositions of everyday objects, the use of different shades, tones, and tints, nature, self portraits and our exam topic, Lock.

I have worked with many types of media such as pencils, ink, and oil paint. My favorite out of them is oil paint because it allows me to create a lot of depth in my painting by creating numerous layers of color.

I also chose to use oil paints for my exam because I was inspired by the work of Picasso, who used oil paints. For our final exam relating to the subject of lock, I was inspired by Van Gogh, particularly his painting of a prison yard and two wrestlers.

YEAR 11 ART EXHIBITION BOOK | 2022 - 2023

I think much of the work I’ve done this year can be related to one another through themes of careful composition and experimentation with colours, as much of the work is monochromatic and features abstract colors.

I think this is best exemplified in my self portrait, where I tried to showcase that a human face can still look real and have depth and detail while also being painted in a monochromatic style using an unrealistic color.

Floris Munneke Belvedere House

In my work, the main themes are past, present and future, and the new project, Lock. I have used different types of media, my favourite being reduction prints. I like reduction prints as you can make multiples of the same art pieces with different colour combinations.

I think the thing that ties all the art pieces together is that they were produced by an amazing artist that shall remain unnamed (me!).