Personal Project Inspiration: Mark Hearld

One of my main faults is that I find it incredibly hard to experiment, and often find safety in producing a highly rendered piece, which can end up a little flat and lifeless. I am desperate to try and conquer this in my third year.

I went to see an exhibition by Mark Hearld at Foyle's, in which his illustrations for 'A First Book of Nature', where showcased. What I found the most inspiring about this, was how the images looked beautifully accomplished, but not 100% finished - and this is something that I need to realise can be achieved.

His images have been created by sticking things down, tearing things off, applying brushes of ink, rubbing things out, and so on, but the remnants of these, for example, pencil marks that had later been erased, had not been completely eradicated - yet this did not detract from the work at all. It is this level of confidence that I would love to achieve.

Images from: http://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2012/05/a-first-book-of-nature/