paintings | anniecutler

Paintings And Drawings

Created from looking closer into detail at trees, mould and decay, these snapshots are from an acrylic painting i did of a section of a decaying tree, i then went over in detail with a pen and ink to show the many little features.

Using a technique by painting black ink onto a sheet of paper and then painting over the top with bleach, these golden patterns and lines were formed to represent the lines and patterns created on frozen ice.

These pieces all involved using watercolours, acrylics, going back over using a fine liner and using a technique of printing various materials through a press onto paper to form different shapes and patterns.

As part of a final piece for a past module at university the theme was surface, working with inks and acrylics i painted the outline of an object and then worked back into it using fine liner to create different patterns and lines to fully explore surface.

Past works for GCSE projects and experimentations using pencil, ink, acrylics and watercolours.

These pieces produced during my second year of Fine Art were made using a method known as blind drawing, this is done by the object or subject being drawn entirely without looking at the paper, therefore creating these abstract representations.

Researching and developing on the image and process during my third year of Fine Art, these pieces were produced by making copies from found images using paint stripper, this then made a coarse and fairly pigmented version of the image reversed. some were then worked into using fine liners to highlight and pay attention to the details and shapes within the copy.

This piece for my final degree show studies the deterioration and multiple perspectives of specific locations, responding to place through tracing, photography, mono-print and architectural blueprints, I build installations with paper, to represent the developments and monumental transformations in architectural landscape. Researching the impact and change from the bleak, tiresome turmoil of the Napoleonic war, to the commemorative work of architectural designer Sir John Rennie, that changed the face and industries of the Royal William Yard. This installation re configures the building blocks of the Royal William Yard, where it is sited. Remains and fragments of the past, seep through these prints and drawings and form coarse, anatomies of neglect, renovation and elemental change. Paying attention to detail and discovering hidden forms and contours within the structure, the work finds the overseen, overlooked and underappreciated. Retracing the functions and purpose of the environment, these mono-prints mimic the masonry of the buildings in which they are shown and appear in re-imagined structures within a space.

Developing on further from blind drawing, these pieces made for my final piece for my second year of Fine Art, these all include the method of drawing blind, I then began working into each one using pen and ink, manipulating and changing the drawing to create an entirely different image, challenging the reader to view the work from many different perspectives, questioning what the subject of each drawing actually is.