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Thank you for looking at my website from now on I hope to engage with it more often . So keep looking in for more prints and places you can see them
From Saturday 28 September to Saturday 18th October 2019 I am in a group show at Church Street Gallery in Saffron Walden churchstreetgallery.co.uk/
A 3D Craft Practice
Havering Collage Graduating Summer 2013
Inspiration for my work
The inspiration for my present work was a chance discussion with a friend of the family whose son is a
“fussy eater”. On further investigation it was discovered that the foods that he did or did not eat were not the things that were normally associated with a child with an eating disorder. When they looked into the subject a link between the colours of the food and his willingness to eat it seemed to be evident. Taking this as my inspiration, I have developed a body of work referencing how a person with normal vision and a person with colour vision deficiency would perceive their food.
How it is made
My work is made using traditional methods and materials. Most of my prints are hand printed from my
own carved wood blocks others are screen printed. The ceramics have been slip cast from my own moulds. After extensive colour trials using slip stains and coloured oxides I have established a colour palate of approximately 100 colours. The fruit is cast using an appropriately coloured slip, then Bisque fired and clear glazed. This establishes the final colour of this fruit, for example a red apple. I then ascertain what colour a colour deficient person would see this as and then recast another fruit using the appropriate slip.
Objective of this project
The aim of my work is to visually educate people with normal colour vision to appreciate what a visually colour
deficient person would see, and try to indicate some of the difficulties they have in their everyday life.
Fruit is a visual example of this. A person with normal colour vision would recognise the ripeness of a banana by it turning from green to yellow, a colour deficient person would not see this change.
As approximately 6% of the male population has a colour deficient problem, any business that does not take this into consideration. for example with their web site, is possibly losing out on many potential customers.
Thank you for looking at my website from now on I hope to engage with it more often . So keep looking in for more prints and places you can see them
From Saturday 28 September to Saturday 18th October 2019 I am in a group show at Church Street Gallery in Saffron Walden churchstreetgallery.co.uk/
A 3D Craft Practice
Havering Collage Graduating Summer 2013
Inspiration for my work
The inspiration for my present work was a chance discussion with a friend of the family whose son is a
“fussy eater”. On further investigation it was discovered that the foods that he did or did not eat were not the things that were normally associated with a child with an eating disorder. When they looked into the subject a link between the colours of the food and his willingness to eat it seemed to be evident. Taking this as my inspiration, I have developed a body of work referencing how a person with normal vision and a person with colour vision deficiency would perceive their food.
How it is made
My work is made using traditional methods and materials. Most of my prints are hand printed from my
own carved wood blocks others are screen printed. The ceramics have been slip cast from my own moulds. After extensive colour trials using slip stains and coloured oxides I have established a colour palate of approximately 100 colours. The fruit is cast using an appropriately coloured slip, then Bisque fired and clear glazed. This establishes the final colour of this fruit, for example a red apple. I then ascertain what colour a colour deficient person would see this as and then recast another fruit using the appropriate slip.
Objective of this project
The aim of my work is to visually educate people with normal colour vision to appreciate what a visually colour
deficient person would see, and try to indicate some of the difficulties they have in their everyday life.
Fruit is a visual example of this. A person with normal colour vision would recognise the ripeness of a banana by it turning from green to yellow, a colour deficient person would not see this change.
As approximately 6% of the male population has a colour deficient problem, any business that does not take this into consideration. for example with their web site, is possibly losing out on many potential customers.