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Bournemouth Students Union - The Home for Bournemouth University Students

Jen Mann was born in 1987 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, and studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) in Toronto, receiving her BFA in Printmaking in 2009. She currently lives and works from home in Mississauga. Her work has recently been exhibited Internationally and has been featured in online publications such as Beautiful Decay, and The Torontoist. Jen is also the Art Director for Konekt magazine, and the founder of Moist Beaver magazine.


I have actually fallen in love with this artist, her contrast of tone, realism and then imaginitive watery expression, the liquidisity of her work flows with movement and grace representing ideas of beauty.  The contrast between female and animal creates a lovely relationship and they compliment each other in strength, while the animals remain bold and beautiful, the women are captured light and angelic. Her work truely is graceful and beautiful, the paint is so thinnly applied, but yet it works so strongly.

Much of Cudahy's work reminds me of Egon Schiele, Schiele's work is noted for its intensity, and the many self-portraits the artist has produced.  The twisted body shape's and expressive line that characterises Schiele's paintings and drawings marks the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism, although strongly associated with the art noveau movement.


Schiele exhibited his work in Vienna Kunstschau in 1909 where he became familiar to artists such as Edvard Munch, Van Gogh and Jan Toorop, once free of constraints, Schiele not only began to explore the human form but also human sexuality, at the time many people found the explicitness of his works disturbing.


Some of Schiele's work as being grotesque, erotic, pornographic or disturbing, focussing on sex, death and discovery. He focussed on portraits of others aswell as himself.  In later years while he still worked with nudes, they were drawn in a more realistic fashion.

Anthony Cudahy

Talented to create and render many different styles, Anthony Cudahy is the God of block painting, these blocked colours not only present tone and shadow to the imagery but also allow for figurement and line work to be complied to.  The last two works of his were great influence in my own work within my recent sketchbook, I loved working with this style, as it appears easy, however, getting the colours and tones just right is vital.  Also, the shading aspects and choosing where to place your colours.  I found it hard aswell not to blend the colours, especially working with oil paints, but I was really pleased with the results.

Erin Mulvehill shot this series of photo's underwater, I like the contrast between the elegance and the surrealness, the girls appear trapped and almost tormented, but at the same time beautiful and elegant.

Charley K Drawings

Here is another video by Joseph Hedges of Charley Keen

AmberANDERSONFINALEDIT.mov

Joseph Hedges records artists in his spare time, here is a video of Amber Anderson.