My Art
Hello
My "faces" are ones that we pull while on calls with customers.
They start out as circles and then I add the eyes, the eyes dictate as to if they smile or not. The hair then sets off the "look"
(Carol McGovern)
A few people have commented saying it looks like 2 handbags so I was thinking of changing the name to "Handbags at Dawn!"
(Paul Harris)
I was a little apprehensive when attending the screen printing classes. I have never considered myself arty and I was hoping it wouldn’t be too peculiar. I needn't have worried. Our teacher/ tutor/ in house artist dude; was very good. He explained thing very clearly and it seemed the screen printing process was relatively easy. Scott Hudson summed it up when he said "you are as free as wild ponies on the wide steppe, churning the flashing earth beneath you".
Only constrained by my imagination, which of my many doodles I would elevate to art? One such doodle portrayed a large falling piano and, just about to be crushed, a rabbit enjoying a carrot. The whole scene was, I feel, rather too complex and I wished to distil the essence of the piece. I chose the carrot, being the focal point of the piece.
A happy accident of art was the frame around the carrot. The carrot looked good but I felt it needed more. The old style framing of the carrot seems to elevate it from a mere pedestrian carrot to noble celebration of the root vegetable. This noble quality shaped the title "the Good Carrot".
Although I a wanted a feel of avant-garde I also was convinced the carrot must remain orange. What's a carrot which isn't carrot coloured… maybe a parsnip?
How excited I was when the exhibition came to the office. Many people complemented me on my carrot and I wasted no time in telling all my friends and family I was now an exhibited artist. They were surprised.
Thank you to all the people involved with the project I enjoyed it immensely. To think that my "Good Carrot" will be admired for years after I am dead is truly a gift. That gift of immortally.
(Adam Redpath)
