Emerging Artist Award 2021
In a Piggle
In a Piggle
Height 34cms Width 38cms Depth 12cms
Acrylic Ink on claybord set within canvas. Additional coloured wire detail extending from frame.
Inspired by the wild boar in The Forest of Dean.
This aims to portray the sense of fear that any wild animal must face hiding from our human presence. It is suggestive too of the periods when we as humans want to shield ourselves from the mess that surrounds us, hence 'in a piggle'. In some small part it is indicative too of how many people have been feeling during the pandemic. The wire elements act as undergrowth partially obscuring the boar but also communicate that sense of feeling wired when stressed.
Judith Lowery
To draw, paint and create is at the core of who I am. As I gradually develop artistically, I find an increasing passion for how I can evolve my visual language as a form of communication.
My pieces are often born of an intense response to a situation or idea. I will begin with an incredible vigour and then find myself refining the image over weeks, even months of reflective production. I lose myself in the application of layers, subtle nuances of colour and quality of marks. My background training in three-dimensions also leads me to explore the potential for how I can extend beyond the surface of an image with the addition of further details.
Most of my work is rooted within nature where I am driven to depict the character or essence of what I represent. The age of the selfie and photobombing has no doubt influenced my images of animals as have my cycling and walking journeys.
My Art is much more than merely a visual representation of what I see. I find the emotional response/mood of others around me can have a profound impact on what I portray. There is no doubt that I harness the energy of such emotion projecting it into what I produce. An image effectively becomes a personification of what I see in human behaviour.
I do not always seek to explain the ideas that lie behind each piece but prefer that the viewer may interpret and connect with how that image speaks to them.