Art Diary
N
Love by N,
Acrylic and Gold Leaf on canvas 100 cm by 70 cm
Every day my inspirations are different
Sometimes I contemplate nature
Sometimes I walk in nature
Sometimes I think about shape and the lines voice forms
Sometimes I like to go outside and see the everyday lives of people around me
Sometimes I like to watch a film
Sometimes I like to think of my family
Sometimes I think about my country
Sometimes I’m inspired by fruit
Once when I watched a black and white film
I saw six women dancing
After that I imagined the colours it left on my mind
When I was a child, I used to do miniature drawings
Tiny lines
Now I like to paint free
When I was a child, I played in my uncle’s art studio
There were books there of great artists
Rodin was there and books from Europe
I can see his lines, his forms in mine
At university we would buy art books when we could afford them
I think all these experiences are a visual diary
A memory diary in art
Once I went to a bookshop in Islington
There were two floors of art books
I bought a book instead of dinner
My love of painting is my lifeline
I like to find lines by closing my eyes
Before university I studied mathematics
I like the line, I like an edge, a frame
First, I’m free
To go with flow
Then the painting speaks to me
When I start I don’t think about objects or humans
I just play with colour or forms
Afterwards I’ll find a strategy
Discovering what is coming close to the edge
I like the process
I like to be alone with my process
99% of the beauty of art is in the process
Working with the materials
In pastel chalks
I like to rub, smooth and scratch
Play with form
Pencil, graphite
Natural colours and materials
I love them all
But Indian Ink is the best
Best paper too
Sometimes I experiment with making my own paper
I make sculptures out of plaster
I like to understand the form of the body
For five months I started a project of growing life from compost
Working with natural materials
I planted the new life in the sculptural forms of my own body
My chest cavity
I am
Growing a body of art organically
Sometimes I contemplate nature
Sometimes I walk in nature
Sometimes I think about shape and the lines voice forms
Sometimes I like to go outside and see the everyday lives of people around me
Sometimes I like to watch a film
Sometimes I like to think of my family
Sometimes I think about my country
Sometimes I’m inspired by fruit
Once when I watched a black and white film
I saw six women dancing
After that I imagined the colours it left on my mind
When I was a child, I used to do miniature drawings
Tiny lines
Now I like to paint free
When I was a child, I played in my uncle’s art studio
There were books there of great artists
Rodin was there and books from Europe
I can see his lines, his forms in mine
At university we would buy art books when we could afford them
I think all these experiences are a visual diary
A memory diary in art
Once I went to a bookshop in Islington
There were two floors of art books
I bought a book instead of dinner
My love of painting is my lifeline
I like to find lines by closing my eyes
Before university I studied mathematics
I like the line, I like an edge, a frame
First, I’m free
To go with flow
Then the painting speaks to me
When I start I don’t think about objects or humans
I just play with colour or forms
Afterwards I’ll find a strategy
Discovering what is coming close to the edge
I like the process
I like to be alone with my process
99% of the beauty of art is in the process
Working with the materials
In pastel chalks
I like to rub, smooth and scratch
Play with form
Pencil, graphite
Natural colours and materials
I love them all
But Indian Ink is the best
Best paper too
Sometimes I experiment with making my own paper
I make sculptures out of plaster
I like to understand the form of the body
For five months I started a project of growing life from compost
Working with natural materials
I planted the new life in the sculptural forms of my own body
My chest cavity
I am
Growing a body of art organically
N has been a regular contributor of the Islington Art and Writing Class for many years. She studied art as an undergraduate and postgraduate both in her homeland and in Britain. Her paintings and sculptures have been exhibited widely.
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