I want people to notice nature, not just dismiss it as background imagery. Because it hasn't been purposefully placed there as man-made objects are, people seem to take less notice of it. As i mentioned before, a lot of paintings depict the man made elements with startling accuracy and attention to detail whereas the grass and trees are just treated like a texture and applied without much thought.
When i visited the John Leech Gallery in May I found a classic example of this in Michael Hight's work which is said to be depicted with 'photo-realistic precision'.

Kerepehi
2008
oil on linen
1350 x 3000 mm
Through my work i wanted to get people to take more notice of nature, and see how beautiful it can be. I hope this is what people interpret from my work.
I chose to use the computer as my medium for drawing because i think this is the closest to being manufactured and man-made. There are no hard-copies of the frames i have drawn, they have only existed on the computer. The act of drawing them on the wacom tablet was just like drawing with a pen in the sense that it involved had movements, and the pen is pressure sensitive just like an analog pen :)
I wanted to comment on how we overlook nature so thought a digital medium would be the best tool to use.
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