As a Joint Honours student studying BA Fine Art and Art History, the two subjects inspire my practice in both areas. Throughout my three years of study at the University of Plymouth I have been able to develop my artistic practice and refine my style. Art History is always an important aspect in my physical practice and I focus on the art of the Italian Renaissance period.

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My art practice has always revolved around the artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and I delve into the themes of art appropriation as well as the techniques that artists use. Using the medium of both acrylic and oil paint I create paintings that explore these themes. As well as this I focus on aspects of colour such as colour theory, trying to use only primary colours in my work and create my own secondary, tertiary hues too. A lot of the paintings I create are influenced by my relationship with colour. This is due to the fact that I am colour deficient – specifically Deuteranopia, which only 0.5% of women are affected by – affecting the way that I paint and the colours I use.

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Currently working on a series of paintings titled ‘Making of a Modern Icon’ I have been looking at the art of 13th Century Florentine painter Giotto di Bondone and 14th Century Sienese painter Duccio. Combining the motifs of late Middle Ages architecture and scenes from nature (such as mountains and foliage) I am exploring the way in which perspective is juxtaposed with man-made and natural forms. Showing arms holding different objects which are of importance in the modern-day society I am highlighting how technology has affected the people of today. I am conveying the message of being too involved with the technology and ‘modernity’ around us that it has become our religion – we cannot walk without listening to something through our headphones, we cannot enjoy our time without taking a photo, etc. Through this, we become copies of each other and do not evolve into anything new. Not only am I disregarding the art theories as done by post-modernists but moreover, I am saying that we as a human race are disregarding our theories, ourselves and but most importantly, our world around us.