MICHAEL KIDNER

With the Michael Kidner live brief my direction was clear at the begining because I took in to consideration that my colour has the same relationship to Michael Kidner colours in his paintings. However I needed to analyse my art work including my use of colour and what focus was required. I had to have in my mind the use of embroidery stitches. However I looked at more artists who use these manipulations within their work and I found that my context relates more to repetition so creating these shapes over and over again to create simple minimalistic pieces which were light-hearted and colourful.

An artist that I have been researching called Janet Echelman creates these massive nets which almost look like lines of stitch. These art pieces influenced me and gave me confidence to experiment with different scales. I have always took an interest in scale so I wanted to take risks to see what my art work would look like on a huge scale. The artwork had simplicity towards it with the use of lines, however with installations being on such a large scale. I feel that this is why it works very well. This influenced me to develop a simplistic outlook on my own artwork as I struggle when there are too many colours together clashing. I needed to simplify my colours for this brief.