Phoebe
Project 1
Phoebe’s Project 1 was created in response to her own chosen starting point of ‘Reflection’, through which she explored ideas of self-reflection, her personal view of the world, and the experience of growing up. She became particularly interested in eyes and the idea that they can reveal a great deal about a person’s emotions and inner feelings. Phoebe spent a lot of time studying eyes and developing her observational drawing skills, before extending her ideas through experimentation with a range of media, techniques and compositions. As the project progressed, her focus broadened into portraiture of self and loved ones. Her project culminated in an ambitious large-scale final piece comprising a series of drawings depicting herself at different ages and stages of her life. These were presented against a background featuring imagery of her own eyes, incorporating paint and sculptural materials to reflect her experiments within the project.
“A big development happened after I made a research poster about Emilio Villalba. After seeing all of the different colours and brushstrokes that he uses to paint eyes I fell in love with the style and wanted to create some pieces similar to his work”
Project 2
Phoebe’s Project 2 was created in response to the starting point ‘Twisting and Turning’. She began by exploring Op Art and experimenting with different ways of drawing optical illusions, before developing her ideas towards more physical interpretations of twists and turns, inspired by her own interest in aerial silks. Following some initial studies, Phoebe experimented with twisting and manipulating paper to capture a sense of movement, before exploring ways of combining this with imagery of aerial silks. She developed compositions in which the figure appeared to be wrapped in and twisting amongst flowing strips of musical notation. Taking this idea one stage further, Phoebe created the twisting paper directly from her own drawings, allowing elements of the artwork to weave in and out of the composition. This created a playful sense of illusion, movement and three-dimensionality that brought the pieces to life.
“I started to think about aerial silks after going to an aerial showcase. When I decided to experiment with combining music with silks I knew that there would be so much I could do and lots of ideas ”
