B.Y.O.P*

*Bring Your Own Pie.

24th Feb

The Waggon and Horse pub

Surbiton

B.Y.O.P- My first proper exibiton, on the 24th Feb (about a week ago now). It consisted of seven of my tutor group (including myself). The theme was loosely based on leisure/pubs. The Waggon and Horse is quite a traditional, 'old man's' pub, and I wanted to put a piece in that was the complete and utter opposite of this environment.

I decided to do an abstract piece, painted. The final piece was a painting taken from a photograph of a friend, who had a mo-hawk drinking a pint. So keeping within the theme of the 'pub' and, of course slightly abstract.

Although I was happy with the piece as a full picture, I thought I could still improve it. Thinking about abstraction I decided to rearrange the piece-almost like a jigsaw.

I think that overall the rearranging worked well. It gives the piece more depth and because you can't instantly tell what it is meant it be, it draws the viewer in. As well as this, the way I arranged it made the eye flow smoothly around the piece. I ended up calling the piece The Blue Man. For the obvious reason, the colour blue. And secondly, the original photograph was taken at one of my local pubs, called The Red Man.

The actual night of the exibition, went well. We had a good turn out and had positive feed back about all of our work. However, I had a mixed view on my piece. The reaction I got from Uni and fellow students was positive and generally my piece was liked. But the local drinkers from the pub thought that it was a bit too much for the pub itself. This dishearted me slightly, but my piece was meant to be out of place, it was not meant to fit in with the tradtional pub environment, so, in theory I achieved want i set out to do.

The exibition is still on, and finishes on the 24th March.