Unit 2: Artworks and Processes
Finished, Resolved Works:
Emily Wenman, 'Midnight Garden', oil and oil pastel on canvas, 150cmx100cm, (Feb 2021)
Emily Wenman, 'Epidermis', oil on canvas, 100x100cm (March 2021)
Emily Wenman, Photographic Research: experimenting with materiality and its translucency, capturing and creating flecks of visual information and botanical impressions through films of light, (22/03/2021)
Emily Wenman, 'Botanical Impressions Diptych', oil on canvas, 40cmx60cm, (April 2021)
Emily Wenman, 'Herbarium Monoprint Series', Magenta and Prussian Ink Mix on Newsprint, (18xA4), (12/04.2021)
Emily Wenman, 'Electric Lines', 122cmx127cm, oil on canvas (2021)
'Electric Lines' close up, Iridescent violet (combination of magenta, ultramarine and titanium)
Emily Wenman, 'Tendrils', oil on canvas, 100cmx100cm, (26/04/2021)
Emily Wenman, 'Botanical Photographic Series: Isabella Plantation', capturing floral iridescence and sensuality, (16/05/2021)
Emily Wenman, 'Rhododendron Superbum', oil and acrylic on canvas, 100cmx80cm, (19/05/2021)
Preparatory, Experimental Works:
considering relief painting and sculptural painting by experimenting with incorporating different materials onto canvas alongside paint (such as monoprints or pressed flora) (2021)
Experimenting with luminosity and iridescence of paint and its fluidity, combining magenta, sap green, and ultramarine oils. Influenced by the dynamic technique of colour field, abstract expressionist painting-dripping and soak stain (2021)
Digital Collages of micrographic trichomes and botanical cells within panels of paint washes, compositional research/ preparatory work to help formulate and visualise the pictorial construction of the resolved painted canvas
Painted response to amorphous, organic, botanical digital collage of submerged, aquatic flora and bioluminescent, sculptural coloured marine life