Recently i came to the point where i was a bit lost with my work but then i have done some reading and quite a lot of thinking and i came to this point, where i saw that being a perfectionist in life, i transfer it to my artwork, trying to beautify and maybe even simplify things that happen around me and my reactions to them. It is like decorating the reality that i have, which i tried to do more consciously in my latest work, that i am doing at the moment. I took a plastic copy of a human skeleton - a core part of a human, but not a very appealing thing to sight, maybe even slightly scary and sometimes associated with death. And i have tried to make the bones of a person look like something else to make it more appealing to sight of a viewer, in this work - flowers.

I have looked at work of Francois Robert ( which you can see on the right), who also uses human bones to make his work, but he uses them in a different way - first, he uses the bones flat, to arrange compositions of them rather than 3D structure, which i did. And second, and more important is that he exaggerates the bones even more by shaping them as weapons which makes it a very strong reference to war and death, where i am trying to make a death associated bones to look like flowers and hide their true meaning to some extent.

I will add a photograph of my piece upon finishing.

Unexploded Shells - Group show.

Here you can see pictures of some works that were in our group show called Unexploded shells. This show consisted of work of me. Georgina, Roger and Ryan.
It was a bit difficult for us to curate the show as the size of the room and its condition had to be regarded. I think that we did pretty well with the task although we definitely could have put less inside the show.

Also. on the two last pictures you can see some cakes i have baked for the private view, trying for them to fit in the title of the show. :)

Picasso at TATE britain

Today i have been to a show of Picasso. I really like that his works from different times are so different - cubist or completely realistic.
In the show there were a lot of different works including some of Picasso's sculpture and some works of artists Picasso was inspired by or reacted upon.
I have also enjoyed that in the exhibition there were designs for theatre costumes that he did an even examples of those costumes.

New works

The first of the new works is a painting that i did before going off to Paris for a show. It is of different sweets that i so much adore. It is sort of a candy inspired dream.

The next painting i did was a reaction to the exhibition in paris. I felt that the art shown there was sort of concealing the beauty and showing the ugly side of life. So, in this painting i made an illusion of it being covered in dust, concealed.

The last painting that i am planning to show at the exhibition is called "the unconscious painting" this is because it is a cut - out of my apron, where i wipe my brushes while i paint. This way the paint that is transferred onto my apron unconsiously. I found the paint on my apron interesting, so i did this piece.

Cy Twombly

Today i have seen a show by Cy Twombly. It was a very small exhibition with drawings from private collections. I did not particularly like the work, but as at the moment i am practicing drawing, it was nice to see such a different approach.

Modern Art and Pop Culture at Musee De La Halle StPierre, Paris

This weekend i was very lucky to go to Paris to see a show of modern art and pop culture. It was a very big show in a gallery in the centre of Paris.
I have enjoyed the show greatly as there was a combination of grimy things that disgust me and on the other side some funny works or works about tattoo culture, of which i am a fan.
Most of the artist in the show are now very well known artists who work for many years now, so i found it quite interesting how most of the work relates to whatever is happening and is popular at the moment maybe even with younger people.
Another interesting fact i have noticed is many of the artists use strange materials in their work, mostly very new materials which makes the work even more of the now moment, i think.
Unfortunately, i was not able to take any photographs at the show, but i have bought a book, so i have most of the works from the show to look at for inspiration or reference.

Leonardo Da Vinci at the National Gallery

This weekend i was very lucky as one of my father's friends offered me a trip to the Leonardo Da Vinci show. Which meant that we got to skip the queue as he already bought tickets.
Apart from being immensely crowded, the show was fantastic! I think that it was the only time when i saw so many works by Leonardo in the same room. I have seen some of his paintings around the world, for example there is one in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
In the show there were many drawings by Leonardo, too. The quality of the drawings is somewhat heavenly, they are so delicate and at the same time they are so strong, i cannot even explain this in words!
I think that his works have a certain aura of secrecy around them - the characters have strange mimics or their eyes have an inhuman expressions. The fact that he was also an inventor who invented so many very developed technologically things that he was a genius of his time also adds another measure to his works.
Unfortunately i could not take any photographs at the show, this image if found on - line.

His paintings are being studied over and over again and more and more things are still being discovered under the layers of paint.