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Artist Insights: Meg Buick

Meg Buick is a painter and printmaker based in East Lothian, Scotland. Her work, often depicting hazy landscapes and obscured figures, evokes a sense of ancientness and dreamlike solitude. In this article, Meg discusses how she employs a wide range of mediums, including egg tempera, monotype, oils, and pastels, as well as describing her constant reworking of these materials to evoke the ethereal atmospheres found in her work. Drawing inspiration from art history that spans prehistoric cave paintings, the Renaissance, and modern abstraction, Meg presents us with a sense of symbolic memory, where humans and animals merge quietly into her shrouded landscapes. Artist Insights: Meg Buick Contents 0:00 “People often say the work feels ancient” 0:20 “It feels natural to me to keep covering it, and destroying it someway, and bringing it back” 0:51 Introduction 1:06 “I wanted to really learn a practice and learn how to make physical things” 2:00 “I always had drawing on the back burner” 2:47 “A human figure has such a psychological pull for any viewer” 4:04 “It’s more of a landscape than a portrait essentially” 4:20 “I think I’ve always been quite intuitive about materials” 4:38 “Egg Tempera forces you to …

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Art Through Symbols: The Skull

Skulls may arouse our morbid curiosity – with the knowledge each of us carries one hidden beneath the surface – yet their enduring symbolism extends far beyond anatomy. As memento mori, they remind us that we all meet the same end, but throughout art history, skulls have also embodied power, served as instruments of satire, and even become emblems of beauty. The Art Through Symbols series explores the interpretation of symbols throughout art history – be they cultural, religious, folkloric, or personal. Each article analyses a series of artworks before detailing an art-making tutorial inspired by the symbol for you to try. Art Through Symbols: The Skull Interpreting Skulls “The skulls were there and I could say something with them. To me they are as beautiful as anything I know. To me they are strangely more living than the animals walking around…” – Georgia O’Keeffe When we look at skulls, we are confronted with our own mortality – perhaps welcoming in an existential dread – or giving us the steadying reassurance that, aside from birth, death is the one experience we all share. For artists living through times of crisis, amid plagues, famines …

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Resist Techniques for Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking

In this article, I describe the resist technique by referring to historic examples, from dyed fabrics to etchings, and Henry Moore’s drawings. Then I demonstrate how you can apply the resist technique to a host of mediums, such as acrylic, oil paint, and mixed media for drawings. Articles in the Techniques Series define the meaning and context of art making processes and give practical tutorials on how to work with them. Resist Techniques for Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking Definition: The resist technique refers to media or materials that have been used to block out or reject the subsequent layers that are applied to an artwork, to retain the quality of the ‘resisted’ area. For example, an oil pastel drawing will reject a layer of ink applied on top of it, adhering to the surrounding areas of paper, and tape applied over a dry area of oil painting will resist the next layer, so the original one can be revealed again later. What is the Effect of the Resist Technique? The resist technique has a different visual effect depending on the medium or combination of mediums it’s used with. In general, it indicates that the artist is a …

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Ky Lewis: The Essence of Trees

Ky Lewis won the Intaglio Award in Jackson’s Art Prize this year with her work Waiting For The Starman. In this interview, she discusses embracing the challenge of working with Tetra Pak, her visceral connection to trees, and keeping tabs on the resident spiders. Above image: Ky Lewis in front of her garden studio Josephine: Could you tell us about your artistic background? Ky: It is going to sound corny but I have always drawn, painted, printed… made things. Throughout primary and secondary school I had the best support ever from teachers who were really creative, and to be honest at the time, maths and science were an utter horror for me, so my world was art – in all its forms. I decided to do graphics initially – ‘It’s commercial art, you can make a living’ was the soundbite of the time. It was the early 80’s and so this is what I did, four years of it, but that foundation was incredible and Medway School of Art was an absolute joy with such a broad and intensive access to design, type, illustration, photography and really passionate tutors and excellent visiting lecturers. We were there everyday, all …

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