About Coco Bluebell Morris
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Education
2016 - 2019
City and Guilds of London Art School
Awards
2019
Chadwick-Healey Prize for Painting
2017
The Painter-Stainers Scholarship
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Event: Orbit UK Art Graduates Show
Dates: 4 Sep 2019 - 8 Sep 2019
A contemporary art exhibition bringing together the work of recent art and design graduates.
Event: Degree Show 2019
Dates: 24 Jun 2019 - 30 Jun 2019
Fine Art, Historic Carving and Conservation Degree Show.
Event: Raw
Dates: 9 Feb 2019 - 14 Feb 2019
An exhibition of recent works.
Event: 1st and 2nd Year Interim Show
Dates: 19 Jun 2018 - 23 Jun 2018
A group exhibition show current works of contemporary artists.
Event: 1st and 2nd Year Interim Show.
Dates: 15 Jun 2017 - 18 Jun 2017
A group exhibition showing the current works of contemporary artists.
Biography
I make observational drawings of everyday objects as the starting point for the creation of paintings. My practice involves a layered approach to making; building up colour and tone to ‘break down’ and remake what I initially observed. Through paring back, abstracting and distorting the objects, an emphasis is placed on colour/form relationships, the material properties of paint and the process of painting itself. The paintings explore the different ways in which colours interact to create visual sensations. Gestural brush marks and areas of the canvas where previous layers of colour are preserved are combined to create a colour that the viewer experiences optically as a new one.
Mark Rothko’s paintings, which appear to vibrate due to the process of layering colour, have been a strong influence on my work. I am constantly trying to maintain a sense of luminosity which seems at odds with the layering of heavy colour. The paintings are a balancing act between producing a sense of depth, maintaining luminosity and finding the right set of colours, all without overworking the surface. The result of this is a reduced composition where the image is flattened. I explore the boundaries within the practice of painting in terms of the space between figuration and abstraction, movement and stillness, depth and superficial flatness as the colours within the painting fade between hues. The subtle colour shifts are the only thing maintaining the hazy delineation between forms, all of which diffuse into each other to create an ambiguous space.