31 March 2025

This academic year has not been the best for me as my mum passed away. I was struggling for ideas for my final piece and exhibition work. I have to be realistic about the time I have available to attend the campus to use facilities on the days that I am normally working. I am playing catch up with both my paid work and my studies.

I would have loved to done a ceramic relief image, however, realistically I haven’t refined the process and I am not in the right head space to do that with the pressure of having something outstanding at the end of year show, in the time available.

Over the three years of the degree I have mixed so many ways of creating together, photography, painting, printing and ceramics. For the final piece I have decided to have a painting supported by some prints. “Just a boy who loves horses”

I am choosing the main image to be that of my son with my friends stallion Embrujo JL as it holds so much emotion.

We then have Norma SA and Arthur, Cameron Mr Sandman and Arthur, Goldie (Taraco Chalina) and Arthur, Gaona JL (Minimoo) and Pheonix Flyer with Arthur. They are all horses and ponies that have meant so much to him and have been in our care at home over the past 6yrs. Arthur is 6yrs through to 12yrs.

I used photoshop to merge, layer, edit and overlay the images until I had the result I was looking for. Next step is to try and recreate this as a realistic abstract and convey the story I want to show.