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Madness - Violet
Acrylic on Canvas
Acrylic on Canvas
About the artist and their art:
For Violet, making art is endlessly therapeutic. Whether she is plastering cardboard with broad streams of paint, or carefully applying twirls of string in collage, she is always completely in the zone. Violet joined the studio in a period of grieving and has found the group a true outlet. When her mom passed, she found that Artbox gave her the freeing outlet to express her feelings with no barriers.
She describes her work as like a barometer of her emotions. When her mother died, her art darkened in reflection. ‘There was a period where my art went completely black’, she tells us. ‘That was the only colour used, black that’s it.’ She has moved forward since then, ‘now I’ve come out of the grief and I am more bright colours. I still use the black but I make sure it’s got bright colours into it as well. That’s me. That’s how I express myself.’
See more art by Violet:
50 × 50 cm
Acrylic on Board
“This reminds me of my parents house and my grandad’s flat in Bath. It has a piano and a grandfather clock.”
41 × 60 cm
Acrylic on Board
“This was done during bonfire night when I thought about combining fireworks with my usual tropical scenes. It represents freedom and travel.”
50 × 35 cm
Acrylic on Canvas Board
“This is done from a book - an interior scene, on the table is a figurine and an egg sculpture.”
40 × 45 cm
Oil on Board
“It’s done from a book. Flowers are good to paint because they have different shapes, sizes and colours.”
35 × 49 cm
Acrylic on Board
“I decided to assemble an array of objects to test my painting skills. I chose these things because they have interresting shapes - often they look more interesting in paintings than in real life.”
59 × 84 cm
Posca, Markers, and Paints
“I used posca pens, felt tips and paints to create my art piece. These are drawings of the Motown artist from Detroit Michigan.”
59 × 49 cm
Paint and Oil Pastel
“This is a drawing of Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong. I drew my piece on cardboard using paints and oil pastels.”
60 × 40 cm
Pastels and Paint
“I used oil pastels and paint to create my art. I drew a boat ship travelling to the carribean islands”
30 × 42 cm
Oil pastels on Risoprint
“This is a drawing of a famous chess player. I used oil pastels and risoprinting”
43 × 55 cm
Acrylic Paints and Oil Pastel on Canvas
“I worked with Violet, a volunteer”
42 × 60 cm
Riso Sheet Collage
“It was a nice piece of work to do.”
42 × 60 cm
Riso Sheet and a Pencil
“People that you might know. It’s cool to draw the people I don’t know. I made this a long time ago I can’t remember.”
30 × 30 cm
Watercolour
“It’s called Still America. I would like someone to support me in the art.”
29 × 21 cm
Drypoint Etching
“The two of these artworks explore the science of lucid dreaming. Each individual work shows distorted figures, one emerging from the ground and the other standing on the ceiling which demonstrates a world that is upside-down.”
21 × 29 cm
Drypoint Etching
“A figure is standing in the middle of the room. He seems to be upside-down in a room where it feels tight and uncomfortable. The figure appears to have spider-like arms and part of his head is split in half.”
21 × 29cm
Drypoint Etching
“The man raises the ground, almost like an apparition summoned beneath the floor. The atmosphere feels eerie and empty, and the figure moves in a spasmodic-like way.”
60 × 42 cm
“There’s a face, there’s eyes, there’s a tree. It’s like a happy place. It’s happy, I’m happy.”
30 × 42 cm
Watercolour on Paper
“I found the photo in a history book. I like drawing history.”
42 × 30 cm
Acrylic on Canvas
“This is a fantasy ornate clock, seen in a book.”
40 × 49 cm
Oil on Board
“It’s a floral picture which I painted from life, from flowers in the studio.”
32 × 34 cm
Acrylic on Canvas
“It’s a flower and a clock - it was done from a book.”
40 × 80 cm
Acrylic on Canvas
“This is a spring scene, based on a book about trees. Then I used my imagination with the butterflies and bluebells.”
50 × 70 cm
Oil on Board
“This is a northern winter scene painted from the imagination: it experiments with squares, circles, and snow on trees.”