Stephen Wiltshire

  

Media: Pen

Stephen Wiltshire was the first artist I First stumbled across while doing my A-level exam, So I guess you could say I found my lightning and style of art at this point. Stephen Wilshire, unlike a lot of modern artist now days has an Interesting story behind him. Stephen Wiltshire was born and raised in London and at a late age was diagnosed as autistic. This means he was socially incapable of interacting with people, as well as others without the disorder could. Therefore, Stephen would use drawing, which was his way of communicating. If finding out he was a remarkable drawer wasn’t enough, Later on we was to discover Stephen has a photographic memory. Which to me, makes and labels Stephen Wiltshire as a very unique artist in the modern world of art. Stephen Wiltshire definitely taught me how to express detail in my own work within my own style, his work encouraged me to spend long hours on creating a detailed piece to be proud of. Stephen Wiltshire has made headlines from all over the world with his amazing talent, his work is truly unique.

Cally Jo - Artist - Tattoo Artist

 

Media - pencil

Cally Jo has only just about made it into the art industry with her inspirational beautiful pieces of art. She has now made it over to the states, however chooses to settle her work life in the UK. Cally Jo is my main source of inspiration when I was looking to see what I wanted to do in life. She inspired me to try new things and always work for what I want, just her work alone has inspired me to pick up on all those things. She produces clean, sensational pieces of illustrated art, her teahouse and style helps me to find my own style of work. She’s also an inspiration to me because I feel a woman’s role in society sometimes still comes across as having to stay in the kitchen and be a house wife, however, Cally Jo has in some what has extracted that role and has a carrier choice in life that may be considered a mans role. That’s inspirational in itself. 

Brian Viveros

Brian M Viveros Oil paints on wood.

Girls of Rebellion

Brian Viveros is mostly known for his vile, erotic paintings of woman either performing a harmful act upon herself, or a sexual act. Although his paintings may be offensive or too gruesome to some of the public eye, others consider it as beautiful. Brian Viveros' work inspires me mainly because there appears to be a lot behind his paintings, emotions, political, and sexual stories, and as an artist having a meaning behind my paintings have become a part of my work, although the way his painted his art is amazing, for me, its what's happening within the picture is what inspires me more than other pieces of work. His work inspires me to take my art as far as I want, as shown here.

Chris Nieves

     

    Chris Nieves: Portrait/Tattoo artist.

Chris Nieves is someone who I consider to be one of the best portrait artists living. He has a very unique style about his work. From previous work I have researched on, he will literally doodle on anything and everything, and the outcome will still present itself as a master piece! He is currently in Australia where he produces custom Tattoos and paintings. Other than Leonardo Da Vinci, Chris Nieves, for me takes artist detail into another level. He definitely inspires me to attempt a detailed portrait of my own, referring back to my attempt of Gemma ward, he was my main source of inspiration for that. Chris inspires me mainly because I feel he gets straight to the point about his work, you can tell just what emotion and feelings are running through when looking at the portrait.

                          

Leonardo Da Vinci - The Vituvian man

 Media: Pen and Ink.

Leonardo Di Vinci's drawing of The Vituvan Man which dates back to 1487, It's current whereabouts lie in Venice in the Gallerie dell'accademia, Italy. To me, it is one of the most inspirational pieces of art. The drawing is an act on Science. This piece of work unlike others most influenced me to produce symmetrical detailed work, not only detailed but to learn the human body proportions. For me, This piece of work can help and inspire me to produce accurate and detailed pieces of work, as you would being an aspiring tattoo artist. As posted, it may be noticeable to see that I attempt to add accurate detail in my own work, referring back to the architectural drawing I done of Piccadilly Circus. To my view on art, Detail is important.

Artist Statement

I’d be lying if I said I’ve always known what I wanted to do with my life. I’ve spent a long time in my studies pending on where I want to go with my life. I’ve always lived in the outskirts of London and sadly, still do. I went to Winchmore School in North London, where their slogan was “Learning to realise potential”. Yeah...This slogan in the 6 years of attending the school/6^th form never once followed my footsteps. I came out of 6^th form with A Level Art and Design & A Level Fashion Design.
If there’s one good thing I did learn in my last few years in 6^th form, it would have to be what career I wanted and strived to follow. I went from wanting to be an Interior Designer, an Animator, A Fashion Illustration artist, you name it, all career aspects were on the table! But it wasn’t until my final years of 6^th form, I started to travel out of my comfort zones and really know what I wanted to do in life. The influences of my decision were all down to the people I met and the heart I followed.

I’m heavily inspired by life drawings, and although much of my work looks rather illustrated, I do have elements of work that are detailed, and life like, which lead me to the decision of wanting to be a tattoo artist. My obsession with detailed art began to speculate when I discovered Leonardo Da Vinci’s work. Mostly because most of his work was, in my opinion was do with human life experiments, which I saw the connection he was trying to put out in his work, as I try with mine. I like to think of myself as an open person, so settling on just one artist isn’t my nature; I then began to look at Brian Viveros, and Cally Jo. These were my main sources of inspiration.

Although I haven’t done much commission work, the ones I have done, I am proud of. In 2011 my hand sewed portrait of ‘Lord Kitchener’ was selected to be displayed at the Royal Albert hall in celebration of Remembrance Day for soldiers, viewed by the royal family. This was probably one of the most honourable and rememberable days of my life...so far! Alongside to that I’ve recently had a landscape drawing I did of Piccadilly Circus back in the 1920’s up for display at ‘The bank Of Cyprus’. At the moment, I’m currently working on commissioned portraits.

Although I still have much to learn, I would say my strength lies in facial features. To become a better artist, everyday, I’m working on better life drawing techniques. I want my art to reflect on certain feelings and emotions either me, or another person can feel on day to day life. Personally, I think I show a lot of different feelings and emotion in my work.

Even during my studies, I hope to start settling back into my apprenticeship of tattooing, and start experimenting with new art.