VIOLA SFORNI

The IB course of Visual Arts has challenged my whole conception of what I thought Art was. I had come from a different school where had studied IGCSE Art. The approach I had learned meant that at the time I had to take a more classical approach. Starting the IB course at the BSM has pushed me to break boundaries and start to process images and objects in a different manner. had to learn to observe and imagine these in different, contorted ways through a series of processes. The procedure was completely unfamiliar to me. This lack of knowledge made me ill at ease, especially when trying to complete my Process Portfolio. I had to start planning my work in an orderly and coherent manner in order to produce a certain result. Studying Art these past two years has driven me to acquire new skills to become an artist. Recently I had to define what Art was. The most obvious answer that came to mind was anything visual that provoked an emotion in the audience. These past two years, both my experiences within the IB and the courses took outside school have led me to unconsciously follow a path: Insects, Childhood and Pain. I have enjoyed using my previous skills shown evidently with the observational of the doll. then transformed this into a story of ‘hybridity’ linked to pain. Here I realised that had reached a new potential to be a creative, innovative storyteller through a series of pictures that impelled me to be more abstract and graphical. The course has allowed me to become a more rounded artist with a series of different skills and a deeper visual knowledge also inspired by an array of different artists.