Emma Hill: Art

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Thursday, 11 June 2015

The Butterfly Lion

So it has been a while...

The best way to get back into painting is working on something that has already been started. So I was lucky, this one was nearly finished. I just doodled a bit on top.

There are a lot of hidden somethings and vague nothings...

And in details:

Wednesday, 23 January 2013

Art for Real or Faking it?

I Knew You Would Remember Me When…..

This is January's 1m x 1m tooth picked painting.

What's it all about? I don't really know - It starts as a scribble finding balance and space that continues to grow similar to a doodle. In painting abstract I feel a huge weight in the sense of theory and meaning of what it is or should be about. Perhaps there is a guilt because it just is what it is and nothing more.

As I managed to get it finished on the deadline of the Saatchi Showdown, Living with Colour I submitted it in. Usually I'm unaware of when it is on and it is not always that the theme is relevant to my work. As it is in time and fits - I may as well do it.

This is where the theory comes in - As I need to write something about it . This is the fun bit almost like daydreaming where you pick your brain for the first thing that comes to mind and start brain storming. This is trying to analyse a picture after it has been painted and not by explaining how I have planned it to be or how it is represented. There is a fine line between the truth and making something up.

This is how it starts:

I get the title just by looking- my eyes are drawn to the open space where the blue, yellow and lilac join just below the horizontal line almost like a vanishing point. (As in the detail above.) While I was looking at it I started to think of a platform and a train vanishing into the distance. The black tree felt like a person/ woman who was waiting or who had been left behind. Then I think of everything in black and white (but still see the red- like blood) I visualise a scene from an old film during the war full of emotion where the woman's husband has gone to fight for his country.

I then think of their memories mixed with emotion.

I think about a piece of string that has knots in it - to remember important memories. This then became the twists swirls and circles.

The circles reminded me of music a bit like a piano game that my kids play on the Ipad, you burst the bubbles, these then become pulses or a beat - almost like something remembered.

That's how I found the title:

I knew you would remember me when.....

The brainstorming done I now have to emphasise the relevance of the theme:

Living with colour - This is what I put.

The colours speak a visual language, complimenting and repelling each other along an abstract journey of memories. Colour, form and rhythm flow freely echoing emotion while the swirls, ribbon twists and circles represent individual thoughts and memories remembered.

Please follow this link and vote for me on the Saatchi Living with Colour Showdown here, Thank you!

Wednesday, 2 February 2011

Artbox, Urban Design Magazine!

Edition 12, January & February 2011

Sculptor: Nick Van Woert

Eclipse. I love this - I just want to touch it!

Cheetah

Untitled.

Petra Stefankova

A London based, Slovakian born illustrator and art director.

4Talent

Dottie West

Broken up

HELLO MY NAME IS:

If you would like to send your art work to: hellomynameis@arboxmag.co.uk

I will be sending some of Mimi in the Land of Itchycoo.

Below are the ones that made it into this edition.

Architect/Street Artist: This is My World.

Graphic Design: Justin Blyth

Microsoft Kin

(Something Magritte?) Le Mystere

Graphic Design: Geo Law

Alice in Wonderland

The Bowery Pillar

Fright Night: Werewolf : Victor Aleman

D.A.C.S

Mark Landwehr / Coarse

Product Designer Mark Landwehr with Coarse. A Double act of German creatives who merge together Eastern and Western aesthetics to produce stunning visual and complex characters, in both print and sculptured form.