It occurred to me that it might be a good/enjoyable/worthwhile/useful idea to do a regular post on my influences and showcase other artists or ideas that have made me stop and go 'wow'. Useful for me to have a reference. Fun to do. Enlightening for you. These have become the Creative Cauldron posts, where I explore the biggest influences on my art. Most of these are visual styles and techniques. Some of these are more about mind-set, attitudes and mental inspiration. I guess you could call them all muses of one form or another.
Ink and emotion.Having recently been attracted to experimenting with ink on paper, which is just slightly different to my preferred medium of oil on canvas, of course I thought it appropriate to also explore the inky influences.
This first image is one that I have kept in a scrapbook full of images that exert a pull of one kind or another on me. It's been carried around since high school, when I first discovered it's artist, Joy Hester.
OMG!! A female artist. And an Australian artist. Double whammy. So if you've never heard of her, those two facts are probably why.
In her time, her art was dismissed. She worked on paper. In ink. And worked quickly. And drew emotion. It's funny, because these are the exact qualities that I admire about her work. Paper, ink, speed, emotional intensity. What incredible intensity. It's often too much! What a talent, to be able to convey big looming feelings with just a few lines, unedited.I guess she was no stranger to the feelings she drew. Joy Hester lived a short and tumultuous life, overshadowed by cancer. In fact, at one point, she was so convinced she was going to die that she gave her baby son up for adoption. Turned out she was to live for another 13 years.
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