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Alice LenkiewiczArtist Statement:I would describe myself as a painter or Fine Artist. My medium mainly involves the use of oils/acrylic on canvas. However, my medium tends to change with the subject matter that I focus on at the time.I sometimes work with sculpture and photography.I see my style as visionary although I am also interested in creating works that are from real life. I have been practising as an artist since I was in my teens. My father was a well known painter in the South West where I was brought up. I was surrounded by paintings and studio life throughout my childhood. My father taught me a great deal about art but I studied a foundation as well as my degree in Art and Design with English for my own interest. Presently I prefer to concentrate on abstract compositions using variations of tone and colour as well as incorporating the human figure and landscape. I use photography as a way of exploring my subject and as a social commentary, a way of engaging with my surroundings. I like to see my work as a kind of poetry. I am a writer and a poet and so both approaches tend to influence the other. Sometimes I combine the spoken word with the visual through art performance although I am primarily interested in visual art. An example of artists that interest me are Cecil Collins, Howard Hodgkin, Marc Chagal and Tracy Emmin. I also have a fascination with Renaissance Italian and Dutch painters. I completed my Foundation Regional Diploma in art and design at Plymouth Art College when I left school. I then went on to do the Open University A102 in art history. I studied my degree in Art and Design and English at Edgehill in Ormskirk. My tutor at Edge Hill encouraged me to make assemblages and collage. He also made me think and enjoy sketching and gathering diaries and notes of my work on a deeper level. This has always been an important part of my work. My father used to encourage me to focus on tone and form. Over the years I have created my own visionary style which is still in the process of changing and developing. Websiteswww.geocities.com/poetshideout/alenkiewiczdrawings.html |
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