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(1038) Judith Shaylor - The Conkers’ Game
350
About this artwork
Looking at the page I was given, which was an illustration of berries and fruits of the countryside painted by the illustrator Ernest Aris, my eyes were immediately drawn to the horse chest nuts and I immediately thought of my youth and playing the game of Conkers.I wanted to incorporate most of the berries and fruits into the image, but I didn’t want to reproduce an image of children playing conkers. That’s when I decided to turn the tables and create this surreal image, where the conkers themselves are playing the game using human eyes as their play things. The rest of the fruits and berries are watching the game, and a crow waits in anticipation for one of the eyes to drop to the floor. I chose Elizabethan dress to add drama and intrigue to the image, and chose to paint in oils to give the image the look of an old master painting.
About Judith
Judith Shaylor was born in Wolverhampton, U.k in 1966. At the age of 16 she studied for a BTEC at Bournville school of art, where she specialised in textiles and ceramics. She went on to study for a B.A Hons in the Drawing and Painting Department at Edinburgh College of Art, where her main disciplines were Tapestry and Printmaking.
Today the artist sees herself as a multidisciplinary artist – each idea she has, often generates the need for a different style, a different material, even at times a different mindset in order to create something original and exciting. The Artist uses paint, collage, weaving, embroidery, photography, installation to achieve her aim: to create original work which will go on to hopefully excite, intrigue, and move her audience.
Link to Judith’s Art Aviso Profile HERE
Judith was provided with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:
Volume 6
The World and its work-Agriculture, producing food from the land.
Berries and Fruits of the countryside
Looking at the page I was given, which was an illustration of berries and fruits of the countryside painted by the illustrator Ernest Aris, my eyes were immediately drawn to the horse chest nuts and I immediately thought of my youth and playing the game of Conkers.I wanted to incorporate most of the berries and fruits into the image, but I didn’t want to reproduce an image of children playing conkers. That’s when I decided to turn the tables and create this surreal image, where the conkers themselves are playing the game using human eyes as their play things. The rest of the fruits and berries are watching the game, and a crow waits in anticipation for one of the eyes to drop to the floor. I chose Elizabethan dress to add drama and intrigue to the image, and chose to paint in oils to give the image the look of an old master painting.
About Judith
Judith Shaylor was born in Wolverhampton, U.k in 1966. At the age of 16 she studied for a BTEC at Bournville school of art, where she specialised in textiles and ceramics. She went on to study for a B.A Hons in the Drawing and Painting Department at Edinburgh College of Art, where her main disciplines were Tapestry and Printmaking.
Today the artist sees herself as a multidisciplinary artist – each idea she has, often generates the need for a different style, a different material, even at times a different mindset in order to create something original and exciting. The Artist uses paint, collage, weaving, embroidery, photography, installation to achieve her aim: to create original work which will go on to hopefully excite, intrigue, and move her audience.
Link to Judith’s Art Aviso Profile HERE
Judith was provided with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:
Volume 6
The World and its work-Agriculture, producing food from the land.
Berries and Fruits of the countryside
Artist:
Judith ShaylorMedium:
Water based oil on paperDimensions:
A4Price:
350 EUR