Lockdown Artist: Responding to the pandemic

This body of work was created in response to the Covid-19 Lockdown in 2020. I usually create work in response to visual stimulus, often landscapes, so this challenged me to work in a completely different way. How could I positively use my feelings of confusion and worry to become a Lockdown Artist? The charcoal drawings were created at the start of the pandemic by me repeatedly writing words which described my feelings at the time, the darker areas contained my negative thoughts and the lighter areas my more positive and probably more rational thoughts. The more hopeful thoughts gradually seeping into the darker ones. The ‘Stay at Home’ series are paper sculptures I created to represent the home we were all told to stay in. I really enjoyed photographing them in different lights and was amazed to see that one of the shadows created body-like shape. This body shape has inspired both a collagraph print and a piece of framed textile art. Click on any image to enlarge.