Wake explores the many different ways in which water can act on the body. It abstracts and distorts, creating illusions and new textures. There is a quietness, an ‘other-worldliness’, to the substance of water; it is a constantly changing lens, reflecting and refracting reality. Water creates a film - a barrier between reality and the distorted dream world, the sunken female figure acting as the submerged human unconscious. This work exploits the tension between tranquillity and unease, push and pull, immersion and separation, ebb and flow. Shepard’s artistic practice is instigated through mark making, using loose lines to create form. Although the work is predominantly figurative, Shepard chose to blur the line between abstraction and the representational pictorial plane.
Giclee Print
OBSA0022
Shepard, Ella
School of Arts
Year: 2016
© Shepard, Ella Published by Oxford Brookes University