When visiting York, I came across York Art Society’s spring exhibition and decided to take a look around. It was really nice to look round an exhibition purely for enjoyment without a specific project in mind. It inspired me to keep drawing and painting this summer and get back into making pictures for fun and for myself. I noted down a few names to research when I got home but I struggled to find a lot of them online and realise I probably should have taken more details than just a name.
Artwork by Jelena Lunge particularly caught my eye. It was different to most of the other artwork in this exhibition which was more painterly and free. I enjoy looking at work like that but I found Lunge’s work more relatable to my practice because I could find similarities between how she makes pictures and how I like to work. I am presuming that she uses pencil, fine liners and/or ink. Some of her pieces are more conceptual and less to my taste but still have a high level of craft and detail.
It was her pictures of birds that I spent a lot of time looking at. I love how she has captured the texture of the birds’ feathers with such a simple medium and wiriness of the hair around the face. In the image of the two owls, I like how there is such a contrast between the feather texture and the sharpness of their eyes, especially in the one looking straight at you.
I like this image but there was something about it that was frustrating me, at first I thought that it was the balance of the composition and the variation in sizes of the birds but I think its jus that the bird in the foreground doesn’t stand out enough. I think if there was a stronger outline around this single bird and maybe some heavier mark-making, it would blend less into the background and the image would have more depth.
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