Our Newsletter: Issue #28
Hello, hello!
I'm trying out a slightly different look for these, what do you think?
In my first newsletter, I named these emails 'Our Newsletter', because I want them to be as much about you as they are about me.
'Our Newsletter' is a space where I can share with you what I'm working on, and you're encouraged to let me know your thoughts on what you're seeing.
I am happy/relieved/excited/grateful to announce that the time has come for me to put my Finding Closeness series to rest. I'm not sure if this is a temporary or permanent conclusion to the series, but it is a conclusion nonetheless.
With this conclusion I am setting my sights on some ideas that I've been wanting to pay more attention to.
Some of you may remember me mentioning two projects last year. As I free up my attention to focus on them now, I am excited to (re)announce them properly and also to gradually show you all the new works that I've made within these series.
Both series are currently untitled, so any suggestions are welcome!
1.
At the end of 2020 I began working on an idea which gradually turned into a series of paintings that focuses on storytelling through colour, composition, and visual motif. The idea here is to create paintings that both you and I can experience in our own way and create our own stories with. The point is very much to highlight human subjectivity in how art is perceived, and to start a further conversation through the artwork. The themes in this project, as with most of the projects I work on, are centred around exploring the relationship between humans and nature.
Below are the first two paintings in this series, created almost a year apart. Soon after I made 'Study of my golden pothos in blue', I was commissioned to create an artwork by a private client, which I will share with you in my next email.
Study of my golden pothos in blue, 2020
Oil on canvas
50x50cm
Available - reply to this email to enquire
Ode to our innocence, 2021
Oil on canvasboard
25x25cm
Available - reply to this email to enquire
2.
In the later summer of 2021, I began to develop my skill in digital drawing. I started with simply reworking some older drawings, but since then these little practices have become their own collection of works.
Working again with the principles of storytelling, colour and composition, I've created a few artworks here that I am hoping to release as limited print editions and NFTs. I need to do some more research into this, so once they are actually available to make your own, I will let you know.
Below is the second of such drawings (the first became the inspiration to my handmade relief print series 'Multiple facets of the self', though I may rework it digitally at some point).
Sometimes you have to take a close look at yourself, 2021
Digital drawing
As always, feel free to let me know what you think and thank you for reading.
I hope you have a lovely weekend ahead.
Lots of love,
Arietta xx