Art- Exhibition

Place of exhibition: Victoria, Gozo
Date of Visit: 3rd March 2014
Name of Practitioners: Emma Borg & Abi Macleod-Clark
Title of Exhibition: 2 Artists 1 House a Carnival of Creativity

Artist work of Emma Borg:

 

Spring in Gozo

 Gold grows on trees

 



 Garden Flower

 

Flowers wild

 

 Poppy Sunset

 

 Timeless Serenity

 

On a winter day let do bright flowers !

 

 



These are paintings of a contemporary artist and are abstract. They have two techniques that are applied on each painting, which each technique gives a different result and creates different shadows, textures and blending colours. Materials that were used are canvas, acrylics,palette knife [different shape as sizes] and brushes. As we can see each technique is wisely used and each one is combined or alone to have different result.

How She Creates the Paintings:

First it is done by painting the canvas, in different shades colour that she want to include in her paintings,and blend them together, then using the palette knife, the artist done the flower petals and then she add the other details that she wanted to do in her paintings. There are techniques that the artist uses that reminds me in Jackson Pollock art, where she open the bottle of paint, and just let the paint drip from the bottle and at the same time she will move the bottle in the ways hat she wanted to create her designs. Although her paintings are abstract and stylized you can easily identify what she created in her paintings.

 Artist work of Abi Macleod-Clark:

These are her works which are artworks made from mosaics. She said that all the materials that she used are from recycle for example, broken tiles, mirrors, utensils of the kitchen  and much more things and sometimes she will add some religious items, it depends on the theme on the mosaic board the items that she will add to it. She had even old shoes, sandals and flip flops with pebbles and other materials.

How She Creates her Works:

 

She will find a base to work on, that it will be recycled from things she will pick up and then she decided the theme of the mosaic board and then she started to find things recycled that will be associated with her theme. The she will place all the things in the place she wants, after she glued the things by using glue even the mosaic pieces and then if she decided that the mosaic board will have things hidden under, so half of the item will be seen, she will use a grouting that she wants to apply to her mosaic board.