Rurban Short Film

Short video based on the concept 'Rurban', made to exhibit in my final Art Foundation show. Audio recording by Mark Goodwin, reading his poem 'Ways Through An Outskirts Estate'. Shot in Thurmaston, Leicestershire. 

Rurban//Landscape Work

Watercolour and acrylic paints and biro

Watercolour paints with biro

Watercolour paints with biro

Oil paints

Oil paints

Oil paints

Oil paints

Oil paints

Oil paints

These are all paintings I have completed in a 20 page A3 landscape sketchbook.

Rurban//Landscape Research

As I did for the architecture part of my project, I went out to take photographs as research for the landscape part of the project. I collected photographs around Sileby Marina (the village I live in) and around Thornton Reservoir.

Rurban//Ways Through An Outskirts Estate

 "Tarmac paths
fissured &
patched"













"green-glow
august sun"

 "wrecked
pushchair kneeling in
nettles"

"windows doomed wooden
with boards"

 "a dog-growl close
behind a creosote-drenched
fence"

 "bent
& rusty bmx"

"up a scorched cherry tree
black"

 "bent-over nails in an oak's
trunk"

 "blue polypropylene rope tied"

"to a brick tangled
in an ancient hawthorne above"

 "the hot soft
smell of drying
grass-cuttings"

"& petrol"















My paintings are an abstract interpretation of the poem 'Ways Through An Outskirts Estate' in the book of poems written by Mark Goodwin (family friend and Leicestershire poet).
All done in oil paints and presented in a handmade book, alongside the quotes from the poem, which I have rearranged slightly to fit with my interpretations.

Rurban//Architecture Work

I started drawing whilst walking around Leicester, but felt that more detail could be achieved in my drawings if I worked from my photographs. All the work I have done so far has been in an 80 page A3 sketchbook, and the work consists of drawings done in 4B pencil, graphite pencil, fine liner with pencil, biro with hairspray, charcoal and silk-screen prints.









Graphite pencil

Graphite pencil

Graphite pencil

Graphite pencil

Graphite pencil

Fine liner with pencil

Silk screen print

Silk screen print

Silk screen print

Rurban//Architecture Research

 The first step of my Rurban project was to do some photography based research. I went round Leicester city with my Pentax DSLR to take photographs that I could later use to base my drawings, paintings and prints on.

As an artist, photography is very important to me, as I believe it helps me to see things I would usually miss and find interesting ways of later composing my art work. In photographs, a higher level of detail can be achieved than just with the naked eye, so I like using photos as a back-up for my ideas and art work.

Whilst taking photographs around Leicester, my eyes were opened to what was actually around me and made me realise how interesting Leicester actually is, as I was constantly looking around for any buildings that would make interesting photos. I have now made two photo albums of the photos I took when exploring Leicester which I am using towards my final project.