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Drawing, Pencil on Wood
Size: 11.8 W x 39.4 H x 0.4 D in
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Wood, gesso, pencil This is the first image in a set of three where the light gets brighter in each drawing. It hangs vertically with this one placed first and the second and third above. You can see them placed together on my website www.kirstyoleary.com This set of drawings should really be a quadtych really with the fourth being completely white, the light through the trees growing brighter, bleaching life away. It is inspired by something that happened a few years ago: my little daughter was sitting on the arm of the sofa when she fell off backwards banging her head on a stool that was nearby; she really screamed but I wasn’t unduly worried, children make such a huge fuss, then she put her hand to the back of her head and when she pulled it away blood was pouring down onto her wrist - at that moment I was flooded with scenes from films or tv which use the common scenario of someone being knocked or falling over and it seems innocuous enough but then they put their hand to the back of their head to discover it covered in blood, then they promptly and unexpectedly collapse and die. It made me realise just how much images from todays media are part of our psyche. (By the way my daughter was fine, after half an hour of intense fear). I think I visualise things in quite a cinematographic way, and this triptych employs the cinematic ploy of the light growing brighter and the characters eyes blurring as their life ebbs away. The title refers to the soundtrack. It ‘s not really meant to be depressing, life doesn’t fade to black it’s simply lost from view.
Drawing:Pencil on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:11.8 W x 39.4 H x 0.4 D in
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Visit my website www.kirstyoleary.com Originally I trained as an illustrator and worked in publishing, however in 2009 after having spent some time raising more children than is really sensible I decided to escape from the Playground Mafia and I returned to Art college to study Fine Art. I graduated with a First Class degree in 2011 from Norwich University of the Arts. Since then I have exhibited widely across the UK, and have work in public and private collections here and internationally, my work is now far better travelled than I am. I have been a finalist in the International Saatchi Drawing Showdown, featured in series 2 of the BBC 2 Programme 'Show Me the Monet' and was Visual Art Trader's Artist of the Month, they wrote of my work: "The senses of emotional uncertainty, of time evaporating and of forgotten memories in Kirsty's drawings are made all the more powerful by the beautiful and precise execution of the images." Although I still paint with my illustration and portraiture work, my Fine Art body of work is based around drawing. Artist Statement "Landscape is a portrait of the soul" I explore the spaces we exist in, both physical and psychological. I use the landscape which surrounds me as a metaphor for my inner life of imagination and emotion. The material and immaterial are not separate but are reliant on each other to create meaning in our lived reality. Drawing dominates my practice at present as the media most compliments and mirrors my subject matter, which is expressing facets of our existence. In drawing there is a relation with the provisional and unfinished, it exists in a state of suspense so connecting it with the lived life experience. Drawing records the unfolding of an event, not the fixed reality of an object. It is a dialogue between our thoughts and our experience of the real; it has always been aligned with thinking and ideas, it has as much to do with reflection as with observation. I draw what I know and experience not just what I see. These are not drawings from life, but drawings of life; drawing the relation between the visible and the invisible. The fragmentary nature of the images reflects that although we live a linear existence, what we currently experience is altered by memories and expectations, our present being created by these absent moments.
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