Fine Art: Ideas and thoughts.

Following the sculpture workshop and researching relevant artists I have developed a few ideas on how to take what I have learnt forward into my own practice.

The materials used in the workshop were flexible and easily manipulated which made it easy to create small sculptures but it would take a lot of work to produce large scale sculptures. The casts I produced with the clay, plaster and aluminium were abstract and weren't intended to be anything in particular, although they could be refined I have decided to leave them and develop them further using other materials.

The casts reminded me of urban and rural landscapes which sparked an idea to use line, found materials within the landscape itself, as well as trying to create a distinction and contrast between the two. First exploring how the landscapes contrast by using line and image by taking photographs and then focusing in on detail, making the landscape distort and take an abstract form so that the image isn't easily recognisable but the fundamentals of the image are still there. This is a minimal approach which will involve using various art practices including sculpture, painting, drawing and also computer software e.g Photoshop.

The found materials will be constructed into sculptures which will contrast the landscape they are placed in, the materials could be anything and could be placed in any type of landscape. Another idea for the concept of contrasting landscapes is to recreate photographs using Photoshop and placing buildings and structures into a field or into the sea in a way in which the two combine based on the work of Victor Enrich who is a landscape photographer that takes his images and manipulates then creating a 3D environment out of a 2D image. His process involves capturing the perspective, geometry and then the materials.