Art Foundation/Fine Art personal statement

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My imagination has always been an incredible driving force in my life, and has done and still does have influence on almost everything I do. It has always been the most natural and easiest way for me to express myself. Putting pencil, brush, or clay on a blank canvas and bringing something I or somebody has envisioned to life for others to enjoy and marvel at. When reading a book I immerse myself into the characters and environments, often sketching out a great scene with great emotion and gestures. I often get people approach me to design them a logo, tattoos or paint something for room decoration, offers I always jump at.

It wasn’t until recently however, that I have thought about pursuing art as a career; it’s been a dream my whole life, a dream that I never thought could really come true. For me, to be able to have a career in art is like winning the Lottery. But with support from people around me admiring my sketches, sculpting’s and random musings and a fresh and yet more mature perspective on life, I believe it’s about time I took a “leap of faith”. Looking forward, I am excited and have an incredible drive to see where the future may take me!

The most influential artists for me are Yoshitaka Amano, who mixes amazing traditional Japanese art with modern concept art. Steve McNiven who is one of the best pencillers for Marvel comics and captures emotion through the human form with beautiful detail. But the original piece that caught me in complete awe was Pieter Brueghel’s “The Tower of Babel” for its sheer scale and realism. Truly inspiring.

My career up until now has been in fitness and leisure, being a personal trainer for 5 years. This was a path taken purely on my GCSE results rather than passion. However, my creativity still managed to have an influence on this path as it does with all things in my life. I began to see the human body itself as an art form, like clay that can be moulded “trim a little off here, build this up a little more”. It wasn't until I realised this when I saw the power of the imagination, the ability to make an idea into something tangible, into a future, into a career.

My ambitions are to pursue a career where I can utilize my skills and my passion in design and illustration. But most of all I would love to become a concept artist, illustrator or comic artist.

Illustration and art personal statement

I have always enjoyed Art from an early age. My earliest memory of this is doodling on sheets of computer paper and cutting up old Christmas cards to make new images. I can remember spending most of my childhood just drawing and being inspired to make and design anything and everything! This love of Art has stayed with me and developed and grown and, now, I cannot imagine wanting to do anything else.

I have always wanted to work within the Art and Design industry because it has always felt like the right direction for me to take. For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to go to an Art school and I now feel really lucky to have the opportunity to do so: I am feeling very excited about my future!
I enjoy being creative and I view Art as a natural way for me to express myself. I particularly enjoy drawing and how this allows me to create images in a way that I see them. I enjoy working in a figurative and detailed way and I aim to make my work expressive and visually interesting through tone and mark-making. I feel, from my progression from G.C.S.E through A Levels to A.V.C.E, I am beginning to develop my own style and way of working. I particularly enjoy portraiture work and using animals as subject matter.

Whilst at Crosshall High School, I achieved seven G.C.S.Es, gaining a grade A in Art. I have since gone on to achieve three A levels and two A/s Levels at Runshaw college. I have completed an A Level in Fine Art, whilst there, and I enjoyed this extremely. I found this course very challenging but rewarding as I had grown in my understanding of the discipline and I gained a grade B. I am currently completing an A.V.C.E Art and Design course. This two-year course has been very beneficial to me as I feel I have developed my skills within Art and have gained an understanding of the various disciplines within Art and Design. This course has led me to my decision to specialise within Illustration. I enjoy creating images in response to a piece of writing or a particular theme. I like the creative freedom this allows and the vast potential for work.

My interests include reading and some of my favourite novels include To Kill A Mockingbird and Mary Shelleys Frankenstein. My favourite novel has to be Animal Farm because it is so well written and has great impact. I have recently carried out an illustration brief based on this novel and this was very exciting for me and, I feel, a turning point in my work.

I enjoy visiting Art Galleries and exhibitions. I am particularly interested in figurative portraiture and Illustration-based exhibitions. I have recently visited an exhibition about drawing styles at my local Art Gallery. I found this very interesting as there were varied styles and approaches to drawing(I especially liked Posy Simmons use of storyboards). A few months ago I visited an exhibition for childrens illustrator Shirley Hughes at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. This had a great impact on me and was one of the factors that has led to me pursuing a career in Illustration. I love the way she combines her use of image against text and the way she uses media expressively. At this stage, I am interested in childrens book illustration as there are so many quality, contemporary illustrations at the moment that I find inspiring. I see illustrations for childrens books as something worthwhile and or importance. They can capture a childs imagination and inspire and motivate them to learn to read.

I have worked for the past three years at a bakery as a part-time counter assistant. This involves such duties as dealing with customers, dealing with money and organising displays. I have really enjoyed this job as we are a fairly busy shop and so I meet a lot of different people and I find this very rewarding. Prior to this, I have worked voluntarily at a local vets practise. I found this very interesting because I like animals and this was a chance for me to learn more about them. I have also been involved in an activity group for disabled children. This experience was invaluable to me as I met such interesting and amazing people. The group activities included Art and Crafts and this taught me how Art can be therapeutic and< basically, just a worthwhile form of expression.

Illustration personal statement

When I was younger I used to throw myself into the world of superheroes, i knew nothing better than the world of those characters, such as spider-man, batman, x-men. The fact that such a simple idea one man created can be molded into something so amazing and entertaining has always impressed me, but I wanted to create my own superhero. I wanted to make something that was mine, something that I had achieved, that was my ambition. The only way I saw to do that was to draw. I was always drawing as a child, mainly because it gave me a sense of freedom. I soon found that creativity is one of my strongest characteristics. My inspiration to come up with new ideas, create new characters and make them visual has influenced much of my time. I have always had a good understanding of what works well visually, from the context of colour, composition, contrast, and positioning. My interest in art has always kept my mind open to new ideas. Drawing is my specialty, my hobby and my greatest enjoyment and has taken up much of my time trying to perfect my illustrations. Whether it is simple doodles from a young age or more ambitious abstract pieces I do now, I always strive to improve and my ambition to create has stayed with me ever since I read my first spider-man comic.

To make a successful piece of art can only be accomplished by drawing or painting what I am truly inspired and excited to do, otherwise there is no fulfilment from completing it. My best work has always come through being focused on the job at hand, always wanting to improve my skill and following my instinct. My skill for creating gives me the ability to make anything visual and bring my greatest ideas to life, no matter how obscure or challenging they may be. When I began to really focus on my drawing, I realised the potential I had and wanted to turn this natural talent into something more, something I could find a career in. So I developed my drawing technique through drawing people in different positions, under different lighting and in different environments, making sure all proportions were right, nothing was too small or too big. This took a lot of time until I could draw a person or an environment with the right scale, without having to keep changing and redrawing in lines and now not only can I draw well but I can draw quicker yet still keeping the level of skill and detail in my illustrations.

I found through my research that to create something through illustration means not merely to draw but to let your ideas work across multiple mediums. Even Including the editing aspect on Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator, two programs that I have learnt to use fluently in my own time. The more I draw, the more I add to my extensive imagination which constantly keeps expanding. New ideas, characters and even stories are things that come to me constantly and i waste no time getting them down onto paper.
Over the past three years my drawing skills have improved dramatically, much of this improvement is down to my art lessons both in GSCE and A level. I’ve naturally created my own style of drawing through the many pieces I’ve done, one which is very rough and dark, I use shadow and shape to show features on people but know when to add bright colour and contrast where it is needed. I wish to develop this technique and expand on it until it is a style that is very unique to me. My painting skill improved dramatically, through the course I have had to learn how to use paints such as gouache, acrylic and certain inks. Not only has this helped me become a talented painter but it’s also shown me how blending colours can create depth and shadow to an image, improve highlights on people and places and generally make any image look more bold and professional. Mostly, having done art for such a long time it’s made me realise that this is the direction I want to take with my career, more specifically into illustration.

I have created portfolios of work full of my own drawings and paintings (all of which have had great feedback on social sites and artist websites) as well as work edited on illustrator and Photoshop. I have used my free time to view tutorials, not only on how to be a better illustrator but also demonstrations on different programs, so as to widen my skill range. I have also gained skills when it comes to working to a brief through my media course, as it has helped me understand the psycho and demographics each person or age range has. Meaning I know how to manipulate a piece of work so that it’s what a target audience wants. Even though illustration is about being creative, studying very academic subjects such as psychology and physics has helped me become a better learner. Due to physics being very difficult I have had to improve my researching skills, concentration and independent learning, all of which helps me in any task no matter the criteria.

My goal is to develop my drawing skills further and learn more in depth about the numerous techniques that can be learnt. Taking this course will increase the variation of my work through printmaking, animation and visual software. I’m looking forward to learning with other students and gaining skills and ideas from them. I have great interpersonal and communication skills that I have gained from my volunteering and the many exercises’ I have partaken in at school where I have had to listen to others and take on their critique and opinion as well as give my own. Personally I also believe you can’t become a great illustrator without knowing people as its one of the main jobs where you need to know what the people want.

I've drawn from a young age, drawn when I was starting higher education and I’m still drawing now. Since I was a child my ultimate target has been to work at Marvel, a target that I believe I can achieve. That’s where my inspiration started and that’s where I want to be, not only would this be my dream job but it will also be a job that allows me to be independent, have freedom and do what I love doing. The next step for me is Illustration at university. Something I am extremely excited about as it gives me the chance to focus completely on creating, improving my artistic skill, and my personal confidence which will propel me forward with the right knowledge and experience to the career I want.

Art and Academic statement.

Art has always been a massive part of my life. I remember my first painting and I remember how I wished I had more time to make it better. Even as a child I strived for the best from my work.

I prefer Fine Art to anything else, as fine art to me has more potential in it to embrace the artists’ emotions and can contain more depth and concept than any other media. More specifically, I am fascinated by expressionism.

Being honest, after I left college, I suffered from depression and anxiety. This set me back a bit, and made me rethink the whole University situation. Whether I really wanted it? Whether I really needed it? After two of getting better, I realised: yes, it is what I need, and most definitely what I want. Being a little bit older than I was, and being a whole lot more committed, I know my mind is in a better place than it was two years ago. It’s given me time to think about what I really want to do with my life, what I want out of it and what I want to give back.
Art has helped me in the healing process of myself. When I paint or draw something, only I know it’s true meaning. It’s like a secret between me and the canvas and no one is ever going to find out. I like that about art. You can be yourself, and it doesn’t judge you. Instead it takes everything positive you have and amplifies it, making you and your soul infinitely beautiful. When I found out that I could express myself and vent through something so simple as art, I researched into it, how I could get involved, how I could help others the way I wish someone had helped me earlier in my life? Then I found it; art therapy. That is my ultimate goal in life. To be able to help someone who needs my help. To be qualified and experienced and confident enough to help a stranger, through the means that I found so helpful and rewarding. But in the mean time, I would like to study art and an academic course to feed my love of learning, and by the end of it, applying for a teaching course and qualify as an art teacher.
During the two years from leaving College to now, I have had a few jobs here and there, giving me experience in the real world, only making me realise that I need to be surrounded by people with a similar mind to mine. However, the experience I did pick up has been most useful and rewarding. I worked voluntarily for Care UK for a few months, where I gained a lot of organisational skills, and a business frame of mind. I gave excellent customer service and had clients ringing back to thank me personally. This made the idea of me helping people amplify in my mind, as it felt good to; firstly, have such nice feedback; but secondly, to know I helped someone out and made their day that little bit easier.
I was commissioned to do a painting in Miami, Christmas 2011. And have been working on smaller projects ever since. I have a lot of ideas I would like to have the ability to carry out. My home space isn’t big enough to fulfil all my artistic needs, so I have started channelling my creativity into graphic art. I love the range you can get with just a button, but nothing beats getting your hands dirty and having everything you’ve worked on mapped out in front of you.
In my spare time, I like to read, a lot. I read a lot of thriller, crime and horror books. I go to art galleries and museums as often as I can, viewing new exhibits and local art. I enjoy playing the keyboard, writing poems and sketching.
I also like to learn during my spare time. I have completed an introduction to philosophy course on the website ‘Coursera’ with the University of Edinburgh; I am very interested in the way the mind works, the way normal and abnormal humans think. This sometimes comes across in my art work, but is something I would like to evolve further as I work out my true style and what kind of an artist I truly am. The study of an academic subject, along with art will push me further into my hopeful career of art therapy and how the two intertwine.

Multimedia Design Personal Statement

After my work experience at Blitz The Net, a web site design company, I found I had a great interest in web site design and multimedia design. I started to enjoy going to work and not seeing it as a chore

It seemed only natural to choose a degree which interested me. After I completed my own website I realized that web design is the occupation I would like to follow on successful completion of my degree

My work experience taught me a lot about the computer industry especially the processes that are involved in designing and implementing a web site. I also worked as part of the full-time design team and produced work that was used in a final product of a brief from a client

Working part-time on a Saturday in a jewellery shop has taught me many skills. These include teamwork, people skills and patience. I have to deal with the public in my job so it has taught me to be patient and calm in hostile situations. I also have to meet targets and deadlines in my work. These new skills will prove very valuable for my time at university

In school I have received many Headmaster Commendations and high attendance rewards. I have also received a Head of Department Award for graphic design. I have participated in the school's sponsored walk, which raised money for a local disabled charity. I found this very enjoyable and it was helping people as well

Outside of school I enjoy reading non-fiction books, especially those based on true stories. I prefer to read computing magazines as I like to keep up to date with new technology. I also enjoy listening to music especially rap and hip-hop

My real love is computers and the Internet. I enjoy working and playing on computers. I like to keep informed about what is happening in the computer industry and the game industry

I also enjoy traveling the world and seeing the mix of cultures. I enjoy experiencing different ways of life and trying not to be a tourist. By this I mean I like to try to speak the local language and observe their traditions. I think this gives me a better experience of the countries I visit and it also broadens my mnd to different environments and paces of life

The major sport I enjoy is skiing. I have represented Tower Hamlets borough in the London youth games at skiing, which was a valuable team-building exercise. We missed the semi-final by only one point

Although we didn't win the experience was brilliant. Golf and Fishing are two sports that I have started to participate in since they help me to relax. I also workout at the gym and enjoy jogging around my local park with my father. Although I play rarely, I also enjoy playing football. Playing these sports has taught me to persevere with things even if I find them hard to do as well as giving me the drive to do things

My work experience in industry makes me feel that I am suited to a web design/ multimedia design degree. I feel I can cope with the workload of university, living away from home and being able to discipline myself. I am also ready for the challenge of a life-changing experience like living in a different region, meeting new people and reaching my aim of a career in web/multimedia design.

Art and design personal statement

Although I pursued an academic rather than creative path in school, I have always been fascinated by the patterns that occur in art, architecture and the natural world, and drawing and painting have heightened my appreciation of them. Creating art, whether it is realistic or abstract, has helped me to see the world more clearly.
In October 2007 I began studying Classics and Modern Languages at Oxford University, but I had to leave in my first term as the problems my dyspraxia caused me were more severe than anticipated and I struggled to cope with day-to-day living and developed mental health problems. Studying this course would give me an opportunity to get back into Higher Education and to learn more about something which has always interested me.
Although I have no formal qualifications in art, I have kept up my passion for it outside the curriculum. My favourite material to work with is charcoal, as I find it helps me to portray texture better than any other material, although I also enjoy working with paints, pencil, collage and I have recently begun to develop an interest in tapestry and relish the opportunity to explore new media which this course would offer me. I have recently been doing a life-drawing project on wood, which stems from my interest in the forms and textures in nature. I have also been inspired by the art I have seen as part of my study of other subjects. On a school trip to Spain, I visited various museums and was particularly moved by Picasso's Guernica at the Reina Sofia Museum and I was fascinated by Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly delights which I saw at the Prado. At the Prado, I was also privileged to see some of the works of El Greco, which I found deeply moving. As a practising Christian, the art of the spiritual matters particularly to me, and I want to learn more about both Christian art and the iconography and architecture of other major world religions. Another thing which left a deep impression upon me when I visited Spain was the Moorish architecture I saw in Toledo. I am also interested in the psychology behind art and how people are empowered by artistic self-expression. For this reason, I am a supporter of the work of The Autism Acceptance Project, an organisation which showcases the artwork of autistic adults.
In my spare time, I have undertaken a variety of voluntary work. I helped with my school's Youth SVP scheme, which organised clubs to help local primary school with reading. I also was a Youth Leader at Edmund Rice Camp, a week-long summer play scheme for children aged between seven and eleven. This year, I have worked at The Croft Nursery School in Newcastle-under-Lyme with children aged three to four. I have enjoyed this immensely and feel it has improved my ability to collaborate with others. Alongside this, my love of the countryside has led me to complete the Duke of Edinburgh's award (bronze) and have participated in Student Cross, a 125-mile hike from Oxford to Walsingham.
Learning about other cultures, both those of the past and of the present, is also a hobby of mine. For this reason I have always been engrossed by the study of languages and I am currently learning ancient Greek. I also enjoy reading a variety of literature and creative writing (both fiction and non-fiction) and have had several current events articles published online. My curiosity about language, literature and culture sets my enthusiasm for art in a broader context and is a source of inspiration.

BA Fine Art Personal Statement

Languages have a talent of captivating me. There is such an assortment to written and spoken words, and the shapes of the characters. Language in itself is a form of art and is one which greatly inspires me. The bold colours and fluent lines of the Fauvist André Derain’s “The Turning Road at L’Estaque” expresses the passion of Italian, while Turkish is much better depicted by the chaos of sharp lines in the Cubist Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase”. Older languages like Latin inspire their descendants, in this case the European languages, just as Dadaism is a predecessor of Surrealism.

The time I have spent in my BTEC Foundation class has opened my eyes to the vast array of the art world and I am enjoying every moment of it. I have a newly found enthusiasm for analogue photography through the tactile use of the darkroom. I have worked with new media in my 3D kinaesthetic practice of clay. Throughout it all I have delved into mixed media to advance the standards of my illustrative work. The Foundation course has brought a fresh start to my life and through it I have become our Course Representative. I am looking forward to extending my knowledge in the variety of art forms available and experiencing them in greater detail than I have already. Through this I will be able to learn about my inner artist by expressing my ideas and maturing my practice whilst reinforcing the strength of my portfolio. I feel that studying Fine Art to a higher level will nurture my skills by means of confidence in my own opinions as well as developing my personal touch which differentiates me from other artists.

Alongside studying for my Foundation I have a part-time job in a pub and am part of the UCAN volunteer scheme which has taught me to manage my time efficiently and become organised. From my job I have learnt how to work quickly and effectively on a team under pressure by using my own initiative.

Before starting my Foundation, I visited the U.S. as my own form of a Vision Quest. Whilst in America I went to the Rochester Museum and Science Center where I studied Native Americans and the differences in creativity between tribes, such as the pottery of the Anasazi and the woven baskets of the Cherokee.

One thing that truly fascinates me is our ability of autosuggestion. These dominant thoughts play into our subconscious with the power to create irrational fear, limiting our life experience, whilst also having the power to cancel them out from placebos effects. Through autosuggestion we can become hypochondriacs in addition to a woman making herself believe she is pregnant to the point that her body begins to display symptoms. A person is fully able to turn their lives around by doing the well known act of looking in the mirror every morning and saying something positive about themselves

I wish to help others find peace within by revealing their unconscious mind through expressing themselves in creative therapy.

Art Foundation/Fine Art personal statement

“The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style”. - Frank Auerbach. I strongly agree with this statement, and that creativity in art is heavily influenced by the state of mind of the artist. Given the chance from studying an art foundation course would give me the pleasure of developing my ideas of the psychology behind art while practically pursuing my strongest passion for the subject. My natural abilities and enthusiasm for art and expression through media have always been strong and I have a unquestionable commitment to do an art foundation course at university/college.
I am interested in exploring the roles of an artist as practitioner, researcher and curator that this course would offer. I would love to explore combined experimental studies and experience new areas of creative study, such as sculpture and ceramics, while broadening and strengthening the artistic skills I already have.
Official coursework and exams I have completed include an A* for GCSE Unendorsed Art and Design, and full marks in AS Level Fine Art, which included two units from my own source material and an examination brief unit. The source material used for units 1 and 2 were my own original photographs, which were included, along with many others, in my AS level fine art portfolio as extra coursework.
In the summer of 2006 I took part in work experience for two weeks with an interior design company. The skills I gained included photography, graphic and virtual design, broadened creativity in mixing media and colours and a portfolio of my own designs. I also have a part-time job in function suite, serving and working in the kitchens for events such as weddings, funerals, parties and christenings. I have been working there for a year and a half and it has developed, among others, my communication and people skills a great deal. This time working at Silkstone Lodge has given me opportunities where I have proven myself to be a reliable and responsible person.
In 2005 I participated in a regional Design and Technology challenge against other schools and colleges in the area. In this competition at Pontefract New College, we won first prize overall for skill and creativity. I have successfully completed Bronze and Silver Duke of Edinborough awards and I am continuing the scheme and working towards completing Gold.
I have taken so much from the scheme, including realisation and/or development of skills, such as personal fitness, guitar performance, first aid and life saving.
Every year since I joined Wakefield Girls High School in 2002, I have attended open days to the public as either a tour guide or subject specialist (including art, design technology and chemistry). I am happy to give up a weekend every year to do this as I feel its so important to give what I can back to the school in whatever way I can. For this reason, about once a month I help at school events outside school hours, such as concerts or parents evenings, and I was elected to be a prefect and form prefect as a reward for my services and reliability. These positions also give me more responsibility opportunities during and outside school hours that strengthen me as a person and member of the school community.
Other school activities include being a active member of the original sound and lighting team which has given me many skills in technology that I use in school assemblies and performances, and occasional DJ opportunities in my part-time workplace. I would love to pursue this as a service or in a club at an institution such as university or college. I attend weekly debating societies, as an active member of the house, host, and developing the desire to join one of the debating teams themselves.
My strongest personal interests have always been focused on art and music. I have been playing the classical guitar for 7 years and my practised ability is going from strength to strength. I have performed in concerts and school events since I started playing and this has had a positive long-term affect on my confidence, with audiences of up to 800 people. Over the past couple of years I have developed an acute interest in photography. I take my camera with me wherever possible, mainly taking photographs for artistic purposes as well as casually capturing moments of fun. My photography skills improved very quickly and a collection of my photographs were good enough to be included as art in my AS level art portfolio, as well as currently being in the final of a photography competition and having some photographs published in a book by www.picture.com. I fill my free time with drawing and painting with a variety of media and purposes, as well designating time and the highest degree of attention into creating pieces of art, usually on canvases as gifts for family and friends.
I am committed to a keep fit programme created for me personally at the local health club, and I also enjoy swimming after school or work as a way of relaxing. These add up to my regular fitness routine, but I have also taken part is an endless list of team and group sports, such as Tai Chi, tennis, cricket and water sports, in and outside school. One side of my family originate from Italy, with some members living in the UK that I see on a regular basis. Although I am not fluent in Italian I can speak it to a useful communicative degree and I would love to further learn the language and join clubs at university or college centred around the language or Italian culture.

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