Artist Analysis - Justin Gaffrey
Justin
Gaffrey is a contemporary artist and there is massive contrast from his
original pieces of work which were flat, untextured and folk styled with Woodie
Long being his biggest inspiration, to the almost three dimensional pieces he
creates in his newest releases.
Gaffrey was
massively interested in how Van Gogh used thousands of tiny brush strokes,
built up in layers, in order to create the effect of his work. Gaffrey found
that his past experience of being a chef, which consisted of using several
different ingredients in order to make a delicious meal, was the best way to
relate to Van Gogh’s style of painting.
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Starry Night Painting
You can see
clearly how Gaffrey’s work relates to this specific composition because it
includes several swirly representations of sun like objects similar to the ones
in Gaffrey’s work. Although Van Gogh’s paintings consists of much darker tones
where as Gaffrey’s pieces contain extremely bright colours on top of each other.
He then took
up this inspiration and began painting sunflowers (a well-known feature of his
recent work) by using mixed
latex house paint with latex caulk and applying it in think stacked layers
using a palette knife, to find out more about this specific technique I could
begin by experimenting with these materials and analysing the outcomes. This
process allowed him to form a heavily textured style. After this he moved on to
using thick bodied acrylic paint which he continues to use in his current work.
Not only were other artists and life experience
an inspiration to Gaffrey, but also nature and human nature. This leads on to
the most prominent meaning behind all of his work; how nature connects all
things and creates the passion to make and learn new things/experiences.
Although I am specifically focusing on the
scenery pieces of Justin Gaffrey’s work, due to it tying with my other two
artists.
  
All
these images above are from the official http://www.justingaffreyoriginals.com/ website but are all untitled.
He also creates
amazing animal paintings which I could experiment with myself and I might lead
me on to a new, preferred type of art.
Violet
Speaks – acrylic 60X48 Miss
Understood – acrylic 40X30
Here is Gaffrey’s Coastal collection, containing
Seascapes, Lakescapes,
Waterscapes and waves. All of which feature in my other artist’s work,
especially the pieces which involve the sky and sea movements.
 
I haven’t completed much work on this artist has
I found him shortly after the other ones but if I was to start basing my work
on him I would begin by really accentuating the texture and making it 3-D. One
way I could do this is by building on a painted or photograph background with
materials used by my other artists in their sculpture work such as plaster
which I could maybe substitute for clay so that it would be easier and cheaper
to work with.
During doing research I have come across an
‘organic’ section of his work, the reason I like this style is because the
pieces are lot simpler in terms of on figurative item on the page and although
they are flat pencil, they all include an area of built up material in order to
add depth and contrast. Although these ones don’t involve much colour, which is
my main focus with in component one, they are much easier for me to relate to
compared to the big paintings as I am familiar with using dry mediums in my
work from last year.
   
http://www.justingaffreyoriginals.com/
Although still life would be an
interesting topic to study, a good amount of the animals used with in Justin
Gaffrey’s work are birds which can be really difficult to get up close to
without disturbing them. I noticed that throughout my research, Gaffrey’s work
changes because within his acrylic paintings there is very think bold
expressive marks created in bright vivid colours with a curvaceous, loose
effect where as his drawings are extremely delicate, precise and intricate with
either simple colour or non-at all.
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