Creative Strategy - Aim for Practice, Edward Hopper

Thinking about myself, my life and current practice in more detail has really helped to start to build up an idea of where I want my work to go and what I want my practice to become. As mentioned in pervious posts, I am very interested in life and the human condition and also the comfort of looking in on other's lives from the outside. I feel like this is greatly going to inform my practice to come.

- I want people to look at my work and 'feel' something; whether that is comforted, understood, part of something bigger than themselves, intrigued, curious, empathetic etc.

- I want to try and communicate the complexities and confusions of life in my work, I want it to speak to people of the human condition and of the narrative and experience of living life as we know it.

- I would love to tell people's stories through my work, to portray other's experiences and struggles empathetically and do them justice. I want unheard people to feel heard through my work.

- Above all I want to bring value to other people and to this world, no matter how small that is. If I inspire one person, brighten one person's day, comfort one person or guide one person through this existence then I will have succeeded.

I would love people to feel looking at my work how I feel when looking at the work of Edward Hopper. His paintings are so comforting and awe-inspiring and melancholy and deep with emotion and feeling, I could get lost in them forever.

Commonly featuring glimpses of life, little scenes and occurrences often overlooked by most, they speak of life and that feeling of being an outsider looking in; they are ingrained so deeply and sensitively with narrative. The idea of self was also very important to him, saying 'Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.'