Independent Painting

Maryam Hoseini uses acrylic paint and pencil to create her work. Most of her work is abstract, flattened figures and landscape as she wants to explore the relationship between the body and physical space. She brings in elements of gender identity, race, and social politics. She is drawing before and afterwards with pencil, such as sketching the body shapes or drawing hair on the figures. Her use of painting outside the canvas on to the wall is an idea that I want to explore, because I tend to paint all the sides of my framed canvas, but I would be interesting to explore breaking free from that boundary. The use of pencil and paint in her work are two interesting mediums that I want to try, I might and try using colour pencils such as prisma colour. I do want to investigate the difference between drawing and painting plus the relationship of the body and physical space as a response.

I do love the fragments of the figures, how they their body is not fully there but the mind can create an idea of where it is. Although, some of her paintings have very abstract figure where it feels that the bodies are forming together as one or another body, it disrupts the viewer’s mind.

Most of her paintings are 61 × 45.7 cm (24 x 18 inches). Her Paintings that go beyond the boundaries of her canvas are around 172.7 × 95.3 cm (68 x 37 ½ inches). I am thinking of working with one canvas that is around 61 x 45.7 cm and then adding paper or tape to the outside of the painting like how she does.