My Scrap-book

Artist: Allegra Kingsford. Exhibition: Colours, Sights & Sounds

The artist Allegra has made a body of work of what she sees in the world, like a collage. She plays with weight and size using both big, bold brushstrokes and smaller areas, capturing sounds and feelings using colour and shapes.

Through my Bedroom Window. Oil, Acrylic on Canvas

This artwork is a view through the artist’s window, as she sees it.

Areas are simplified into shapes. She does not use realistic colours, but chooses the colours she feels to use.

Clockwork Orange (and blue). Acrylic, Oil on Canvas

This work is a view of the world outside, with patches of blue sky coming through. Shapes sit underneath, on top and beside one another.

Blank white space is left to keep a clear focus on the image, and not clutter the work.

Kites, Sails and Circus tents. Acrylic, Oil on Canvas

This image Allegra remembers from going to the circus one day. She paints from her memory, rather than painting at the circus.

Some shapes are bolder colours, and others are muted and transparent. Shapes over-lap, and go in different directions, drawing our eye around the work.

The Monsters under my bed. Oil on Canvas

Instead of being scared of her nightmares: the monsters under her bed, the artist paints them, expresses them out- into colourful new worlds, born from her imagination.

Bits of the World. Acrylic and Oil on Paper, on wall

This collage is from bits selected from sights outside, put back together, in any way the artist likes, to make it her own new world.

The white spaces are called ‘negative’ shapes, these work as shapes of their own, just as the ‘positive’ coloured shapes do.

My world as I see it:Let’s make our own artwork. Like the artist has done, let’s try using bold and muted colours, positive and negative space. You can draw as many things and use as many colours as you feel, make it your own!