San-Marí van Wyk's fine art blog: Remember when art was fun?: Chapter 1

My first work of my final year Fine Arts body of work. The lecturers thought it was WAY to busy, haha, that's me for you - all over the place in my head. If you go to the link www.stateoftheart.co.za/art-by-san-mar%C3%AD-van-wyk/151 you can view it on the State of the Art Online Gallery where it is for sale.

In my body of work I was inspired by Art Therapy, and the healing potential of art. The rules are that there are absolutely NO rules, which is friggen awesome I think. You can freely express yourself however you wish, letting go of all your inhibitions. You just go. You are completely and utterly free. That is how I like to create. Absolute freedom of expression.

I looked to the CoBrA art movement, and artists like Karel Appel for inspiration. They stood for the same freedom of expression as I believe in. Appel believed that "impulse, energy, speed and action" were the most important for the painting process, because it was through those elements, he believed, that genuine, honest expressive outcomes would arise. I believe that as well.

My body of work for 2013 is a series of artworks divided into three Chapters and each consisting of three phases: Creation, Translation, and Reinterpretation. This one was my first Creation and during the Creation stage I would make a painting as free and spontaneous as possible, focusing on expressing myself and having no preconceived image or end product in mind.

This painting was the first of the year and the first before a heck of a lot of growth and development in my painting skills and process. I'll post more works soon. And I'm very excited because I am home now and I bought a bunch of canvasses today and I am going to start painting tomorrow, so I will be posting some process and progress photos and some new artworks very soon! Super excited!