Faig Ahmed

Faig Ahmed is an artist I came across whilst researching into Laurent Mareschal. Faig ahmed is another artist who uses Islamic pattern and inspiration in his work. He used traditional Azerbaijan carpets and manipulated sections of the traditional weave by pixilating and modernising them. The paisley patterns and shapes caught my interest so I decided to look further into Islamic pattern and design.

http://www.faigahmed.com/works/carpets/

2 tutor Crit

My experience of two tutor crit was a good one, I was able to express my enthusiasm and love for my work and explain my journey to my peers an tutors with confidence. Although it was a short minute long talk I was able to squeeze in all the information about my summer research, explain my personal journey and my work so far. I was pleased with this successful presentation as I usually am a nervous person. We were asked to choose between three different places, Airport, Toilet, Church to decide where out work could be displayed. I chose church as i feel it may be a place where my cultural references and inspiration may not be displayed and i enjoy sharing my life, culture and work with everyone.

Inspiration

Continuing to use my life as inspiration is something I enjoy as I like to share and inspire others helping them to understand and embrace my culture and my work. I have been taking pictures of traditional food that my mother cooks and picking out colours as inspiration.

Further work

To take my work a little more forward, I have been gathering more research, taking photographs of delicious food that my family cook and using them to form a colour palette. I have also started more drawing, using henna and diluted spice as media to paint with. The colours are limited when it comes to painting with spice as the colours don't dilute into their true colour. The spice has also faded over time which could cause a problem. It is difficult working with henna as it isn't as easily controllable as other media.

Laurent Mareschal

Laurent Mareschal is an artist that I quickly became interested in. He uses influences from his Palestinian culture to create an art piece that is interactive for his audience. This particular piece that caught my eye was made using spices poured onto a beautiful template that had cut outs to create a tile like pattern. This gave me the inspiration to use spice and henna as media in my own work and to use them for drawing and colour.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/exhibition-jameel-prize/jameel-prize-3-inside-the-exhibition/ 

Initial Drawings

I have started off by picking out shapes and patterns from the photographs I have taken and used them to make prints and patterns. The main reasons why i have started like this is to just get self going and play around with different shapes and patterns before I decide which route within print making I want to take.