Summarise

To summarize, I have decided on six final images for my work, all I need to do now - after being in the print room all week playing around with combinations, is print them. I hope to do this Monday, and also use the letterpress for quotes between the pages of images, and voila, I should be finished!

I've had a lot of help and guidance through out the project from lecturers who have encouraged me to enjoy working the print room, most of them saying that I belong in the print room, this has pleased me as I really do love print making.

I have enjoyed researching Virginia Woolf, I feel as if I have an age old friend in her, she led such a sad life, and I have tried to include this in my work as well as aspects like 'Her husband owned a monkey named Mitz' – looking at small monkeys was brilliant. I would be lying if I said I have found this project easy, it has been tough! I have had a lot of time where I have questioned my drawing and compositional skills (print room) and from deciding what fact to use, to struggling to cut paper properly, I have enjoyed and loathed the last project at university ever.

It makes me sad knowing that my time at university has come to end, I feel like I have established a safe habitat that works quite well for me as an artist. Being in the studio with peer support helps and hinders at times, so it will be extremely strange when I can no longer pop in and out. I think the thing I will struggle the most without is of course the print room, I don’t have the money or space for a huge industrial sized screen printing machine – I guess in terms of lino and dry point I’ll have to try putting the image under the wheel of my car! Alas, I will no longer have the staff support either, this is sad as I feel I have gained a lot of knowledge from them, as well as friendship (to a varying degree anyway, I’m sure you all hate me!) it will be strange and weird not having a brief to work to or a guest lecture to attend.

Oh well, hopefully in a year’s time I’ll be in a job I love. Or I’ll be working at Tesco full time, talking about the good old days at university.

Bibliography 


http://www.jamesunsworth.com/
http://www.englandgallery.com/artist_group.php?mainId=59&media=Paintings
http://www.soane.org/
http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums
http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.co.uk/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xKDRmhp6lQ