Untitled Lauren Simons, 2025 This body of work engages with the disruption of traditional portraiture by deliberately fragmenting and...

Throughout my practice I have had a focus on highly detailed drawings and paintings of faces as well as the body linking to themes such as emotion and experience. During previous studies I decided to step back and look at simple techniques that I could incorporate into my work that could help emphasise these themes. When researching these techniques I fell down the rabbit hole of colour theory, in particular simultaneous contrast, a phenomenon that happens when two adjacent c

A text I had written during my previous studies. The 'window metaphor' offers a layered approach to understanding visual perception. It...

Using chalk pastel I have done a first layer to place the mid-tones and get an idea of the dark shadow placements. Using a pencil and...

After taking multiple photos of my eyes, I edited each set of three frames into the CMY colour way, alternating the order of the frames...