'Colour & Harmony': Conclusion

This project brief was a wondeful opportunity to give me a sense of how I feel about producing work from a more personal frame of mind than, for example, more commercial aspirations. I originally took on the Foundation course with the idea that I would take to illustration. Convinced my ideas contradicted this notion and that I would only restrict my own artistic potential as an illuustrator, my tutor urged me to keep my mind open to the possibility I may wish to take on Fine Art as a subject.

To this day, I am ever grateful he was as insistant on that idea as he was.

'Colour & Harmony', as an experience, forced me to produce work in a more expressive manner and allowed me to realise how much more fulfilling it was for me to produce work purely out of my own interests, something I had clearly been doing already but perhaps took for granted.

I have continued to work around the ideas developed from 'Colour & Harmony' and have continued to take inspiartion from a few artists I discovered around the time I worked on this project, namely Howard Hodgkin, Wolfgang Bloch and Lucio Fontana. Additionally, for future ideas, I have incorporated a more visual approach to my reponses, allowing to make my pieces regarding the music more identifiable with myself and apply influences to my drawing style(s). This includes Corbusier's Modular Man, works of Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and even more unusual references originating from various comic-books and styles of online animators. It seems only logical that many of my art pieces, regardless of the intended final media, work as a translation from some form of drawing. Given the very natural and cathartic implications behind my option to produce drawings, it has become something of a primary nature to my art, most likely why it feels most natural for me to 'design' my responses.

'You've Got Another Thing Coming; Judas Priest' (2011)