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AmandaHouchen

Fine Artist

Amanda Houchen Artists Statement 2011 I am a self-taught artist living in London. My work aims to evoke emotion through a heightened sense of colour and shape. The portraits are done in a slightly childlike style, conveying an exaggerated state of awareness and the sensory experience of just looking. The work includes text, as a child would label their pictures, deliberately drawing the viewer's attention towards certain details. These pieces are designed above all to be fun and fulfilling; creating positive feelings through bright colours and patterns, so appealing to people on an instinctive level. My work is primarily motivated by my fear of the helplessness and deterioration of old age, wanting to capture the vitality and energy of youth. There is a stylised and tactile quality to the paintings that is inspired largely by graphic design. I work from my own photographs; influenced by the glamour and contrived composition of fashion photography. My focus is to create original paintings; fusing figurative and abstract elements to form a contemporary style. I seek to convey the bold graphic style of glossy fashion advertisements, but using oil paint as the medium to emphasise the colour and mood of a particular moment.

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Location All > United Kingdom > London > London Postcode N
Categories All > Visual Art > Fine Artist

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