https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl Y3 S1 en-us 2023-01-15 12:18:44 UTC 2023-01-15 20:46:46 UTC hello@padlet.com mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2143688691 As a multidisciplinary artist, Richter is someone I have looked into at various times over my time at GSA. I am particularly fond of his works that use a birdseye viewpoint (pictured as an example, annotated). I find these paintings of his particularly interesting as when you isolate a part of it, it becomes unclear that it is an urban landscape and you could even say it becomes somewhat abstract. Abstraction and confusion is something I began welcoming into my work last year and has become a predominant theme as I headed into third year.]]> 2022-04-14 09:45:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2143688691 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2143693738 I was inspired by George Shaw first and foremost by his subject matter in his work. I later discovered that he uses enamel paint which is something (had it not been for my financial situation) I would love to have tried out this semester- I hope I will get round to experimenting with enamel paint later in the year.]]> 2022-04-14 09:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2143693738 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2143817212 I have been interested in researching Whistler's work since before the start of the start of 2nd year and is someone I find very inspiring. I found is 'nocturne' paintings of particular interest; I enjoyed his colour palette choices as well as how he composes the image and allows room for the eye to wander and discover independently. The shallowness in tonal range also forces the viewer to get physically much closer to the painting than perhaps usually. I was fortunate enough to see a couple of his Nocturne paintings at the Tate Britain last October.]]> 2022-04-14 12:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2143817212 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444698054 After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg
The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart]]> 2023-01-15 12:24:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444698054 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444699004 Reading has become a very important thing in my life since last summer. I haven't always enjoyed reading as I have always felt that schools forced it upon everyone which made it far less enjoyable. I have found it a kind of escapism and it has also encouraged be to become more confident in my own creative writing which for now is something I am keeping completely separate from my art practice but however may subconsciously bleed into it at times. I am a believer that subconsciously everything we do with our creative energy will some how influence everything else and so I felt it was important to add this into my research journal.]]> 2023-01-15 12:26:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444699004 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444706171 Bell wasn't someone I had heard of prior to attending the London trip back in October of Semester 1. I came across a few of her works at the Tate Britain and was immediately drawn to them. After purchasing a book about her, one of my favourite works would have to be 'Still Life with Wild Flowers', 1915, oil on canvas. (cont. below)]]> 2023-01-15 12:43:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444706171 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444706294 2023-01-15 12:43:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444706294 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444706869 Still Life With Wild Flowers, oil on canvas, 1915]]> 2023-01-15 12:45:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444706869 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444708017 I really enjoy the texture and the child-like brush marks created here. I would like to create more work in this kind of still maybe by experimenting with oil pastels and oil paint together and maybe on various scales too.]]> 2023-01-15 12:48:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444708017 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444712483 This is one of my own photos taken at the Tate Britain at the end of November last year. Whistler's Nocturne paintings draw me in with they lack of tonal contrast and limited palette. These attributes make the painting visually very intriguing and makes the viewer get closer to the painting to get a better look.]]> 2023-01-15 12:58:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444712483 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444713951 Another painting I photographed at the Tate Britain which I enjoyed for the same reasons mentioned above. I would also like to add that this one feels ever so slightly abstract from afar as the bridge reflects on the water to create interesting symmetry.]]> 2023-01-15 13:00:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444713951 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444716971 I saw this piece on display at the 'Art on Paper since 1960' at the British Museum in November of last year. As I've been thinking about heading into abstraction with my printmaking as well as my painting, I was drawn to the texture Diebenkorn was able to create from a type of ground; a soap ground is something I have since spoken to Ian (print technician) about exploring in semester 2.]]> 2023-01-15 13:07:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444716971 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444719230 This was another piece of work I saw at the British Museum in the exhibition about works on paper. I very much like the subconscious and relaxed approach to the finished result here. It almost feels like it could have been some sort of drawing exercise with different mediums- it seems naive bit with depth at the same time.]]> 2023-01-15 13:12:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444719230 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444722856 Somethings very feel yet very ersatz about Carol Rhodes paintings, they can flit between realism and abstraction very clearly. This is something I will be trying harder to strike a balance between in semester 2.]]> 2023-01-15 13:20:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444722856 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444728415 I struggled to find a link to a website that would let me share this video but I found a news article about Prodger when she won the 2018 Turner prize and there is a video link within the article. I have been travelling up and down to London on the Avanti fairly frequently since I have lived in Glasgow and I feel like this consistent moving has had a lasting impact on what I am interested in within my practice. I also love the mundanity that this video was filmed using an iPhone- no expensive technology needed. Videography is something I would like to explore but don't really know where to start. By showing that works of art can be made using such simple photography methods, this makes videography feel much more accessible to me.]]> 2023-01-15 13:31:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444728415 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444729408 2023-01-15 13:33:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444729408 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444730511 Film photography is something I have delved into since the start of Semester 1. For this semester my photography has been used as a starting point to use in other works such as photec etchings or photopolymers. As I gain confidence in my new skill, I would like to feel able to present photographs as fully realised works by the end of next semester and feel as those photography is a stand alone part of my practice. Here are just a couple of the photos I've taken recently which I feel are the most successful.]]> 2023-01-15 13:35:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444730511 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444733906 2023-01-15 13:43:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444733906 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444734546 2023-01-15 13:44:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444734546 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444734688 2023-01-15 13:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444734688 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444736999 See 'Favourite Works']]> 2023-01-15 13:50:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444736999 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444737755 See 'Favourite Works']]> 2023-01-15 13:51:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444737755 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444738495 See 'Favourite Works']]> 2023-01-15 13:52:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444738495 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444739374 See 'Favourite Works']]> 2023-01-15 13:54:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444739374 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444741625 These aren't the works that first spring to mind when I think of Philip Guston however I very much enjoy his continuation of his childlike approach with his dynamic way of applying material to paper. He has also maintained a limited palette which works well compositionally.]]> 2023-01-15 13:59:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444741625 mayamcmahonboon https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444742596 See 'Favourite Works']]> 2023-01-15 14:01:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mayamcmahonboon/uymt8o249nlvamhl/wish/2444742596