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Art by Marie at Black by Design
My name is Marie
Hello
Coming from a family of artists, I have a passion for all things creative. Until recent times however, I have had little or no time to indulge myself in it. You know how it is, ‘time and no money’ or ‘money and no time’.
I spent many years as a senior lecturer in digital multi-media, but felt the need for a career change and moved into teaching traditional art and design. During this experience I felt the need explore my own art interests and started to put pencil to paper again.
I love natural forms and concentrated mainly on traditional pencil drawings from photos, life drawing and portrait classes.
I moved into using black paper as a starting point and having been given a small set of Karisma pencils tried the two together. I loved the effect and explored and developed my style using this medium in combination with black paper.
I was amazed at how my interest in colour grew and I naturally moved into abstract works, which nearly always had an organic feel. I have a great love of nature and the outdoors, so maybe this is where it comes from.
I had always wanted to explore clay and was considering this as my next project medium, when I came across a small Raku exhibition.
I was immediately taken by this as an art form. I booked onto a workshop, researched and invested in the tools to enable me to develop my skills in this field. I now have my own Raku kiln set up at home.
I really enjoy hand building with clay and the Raku process outcomes fit nicely with my style, which nearly always encompasses black.
What more can I say? I love what I do and I hope that you enjoy browsing the outcome.
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