Artist Information:
Bryn K. Mcconnell
Brussels,
Belgium
Member Since: Sep 2005
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Artist Statement:
Fashion is my muse. Painting
is a means of exploring and
uncovering my visual
attraction to fashion. What
color combinations, forms and
textures of contemporary
styles represented in fashion
magazines appeal to me? How
can I expose and exploit these
qualities? I have been
working on this series for
four years and each painting
tells me something more about
the direction I want to go.
By seeing what I create I
learn where to go next, a
continual experimentation of
how to make it better, more
what I want. In this series
of paintings I exaggerate the
strangely beautiful and
unexpectedly glamorous and
simplify in semi-abstraction
the bold and beautiful appeal
of fashion. I am a painter
and I cannot deny I think like
a painter. I do uncover
explanations as to why I paint
what I do but ultimately I am
lead by a vision not by a
concept. The concept comes
after.
Concept. My paintings could be
seen as a journal or diary
recording my search for beauty
determined by my environment.
In this way the painting
process is a reflection of my
present situation of city
dwelling and my weakness under
a consumerist influence for
materialistic ...
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Bryn K. Mcconnell's Free Artist Portfolio
| Welcome to Bryn K. Mcconnell's Portfolio. Browse Mcconnell's body of work: Fashion is my muse. Painting is a means of exploring and uncovering my visual attraction to fashion. What color combinations, forms and textures of contemporary styles represented in fashion magazines appeal to me? How can I expose and exploit these qualities? I have been working on this series for four years and each painting tells me something more about the direction I want to go. By seeing what I create I learn where to go next, a continual experimentation of how to make it better, more what I want. In this series of paintings I exaggerate the strangely beautiful and ... |
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