A project I was working solo with for a couple of months. I developed a body of research to stimulate ideas relating to human bodies, nature and the relationship created between the two. Unfortunately due to Coronavirus I wasn't able to display larger works made for a final exam within University. I am taking this opportunity to get these paintings out there and use this almost as the exam if you like. Something to make the work seem valuable and complete. 
The gestures with the works are expressing my emotions, using colour to influence each move and with imagery in my head of the body and plants I wanted to capture within each painting. It is important to me that there is an atmospheric presence, capturing the essence of something and having this contrast between past and present setting the mood. I have focused on the male figure within two of the three works. This is because I feel the female body has been seen throughout the art world going back to Classical Greek statues. Here the male genitals are out, vulnerable for the viewer to see, I wanted to create a shocking but almost pretty painting using colours of fleshy pinks balanced by the flutters of green capturing the shape. My intention was to create bold, in your face paintings which have this abstracted image of the male figure. As with female statues the body is half covered by drapery leaving the viewer to imaging the other half and this is the inspiration behind, 'Back' and 'Front'. 

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