Ellen Jewett is a Canadian artist, who specialises in exotic sculptures. Ellen Jewett’s artwork is focused around one of her favourite things, animals. She also intertwines nature into her sculptures to make a sort of hybrid creature, she builds around these eight themes, natural beauty, curiosity, colonialism, domestication, death, growth, visibility and wilderness. Jewett says “ Plants and animals have always been the surface on which humans have etched the foundations of culture, sustenance, and identity” which is what inspires her to create her intricate and peculiar sculptures. She has studied at many universities and schools over the years, In 2011 she got an apprenticeship in Canine behaviour and aggression, to help her understand
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This sculpture has many interesting features all adding to the gloomy and mysterious vibe of this creature. I think this sculpture is a beautiful because I love the atmosphere it creates and the images it makes you imagine. In her sculptures Jewett uses special materials and techniques to create each one of her sculptures, they are sculpted layer by layer from inside to out but using many different small parts of nature and animal pieces and components. Jewett uses less substances to build the sculptures as she likes having more negative space to make it feel intricate, fragile and feminine. All of the details on her pieces are by free modeled by hand, the only tools Jewett uses are her fingers and a paintbrush. The materials she doesn’t use are clays, paints, glazes, finishes and mediums or anything with toxic properties, so she has had to experiment a bit seeing what else she can use. Ellen Jewett starts her sculpture with a metal armature which is then coated with with light weight clay which she then sculpts with. She paints with acrylic, mineral and oil pigments, the eyes on the sculpture are embedded glass. When the whole thing is sculpted and painted she glazes it to enhance the colour and make the outer shell …show more content…
I imagine the sounds of trickling water running over stones, the rustling sound of leaves stumbling over low on the ground. Although I haven’t actually visited a misty and mysterious river or lake its seems familiar like a scene from a typical horror or murder mystery movie. This piece has many detailed and interesting features, all contributing to the one mysterious and eerie sculpture. The shape of this sculpture shaped like a snake, there is the main big loop and two other curls ending to the head and the tail, it’s sort of an peculiar position for a snake to be in naturally. I love this piece because of the atmosphere it gives, i like the intricate details that add to the whole piece and i love the images it makes you create in your head. This sculpture is represents escape and near misses as it says in its title. The sculpture reflects by the twigs on its body, like spidery fingers trying to trap you but there is still enough room to
This sculpture has many interesting features all adding to the gloomy and mysterious vibe of this creature. I think this sculpture is a beautiful because I love the atmosphere it creates and the images it makes you imagine. In her sculptures Jewett uses special materials and techniques to create each one of her sculptures, they are sculpted layer by layer from inside to out but using many different small parts of nature and animal pieces and components. Jewett uses less substances to build the sculptures as she likes having more negative space to make it feel intricate, fragile and feminine. All of the details on her pieces are by free modeled by hand, the only tools Jewett uses are her fingers and a paintbrush. The materials she doesn’t use are clays, paints, glazes, finishes and mediums or anything with toxic properties, so she has had to experiment a bit seeing what else she can use. Ellen Jewett starts her sculpture with a metal armature which is then coated with with light weight clay which she then sculpts with. She paints with acrylic, mineral and oil pigments, the eyes on the sculpture are embedded glass. When the whole thing is sculpted and painted she glazes it to enhance the colour and make the outer shell …show more content…
I imagine the sounds of trickling water running over stones, the rustling sound of leaves stumbling over low on the ground. Although I haven’t actually visited a misty and mysterious river or lake its seems familiar like a scene from a typical horror or murder mystery movie. This piece has many detailed and interesting features, all contributing to the one mysterious and eerie sculpture. The shape of this sculpture shaped like a snake, there is the main big loop and two other curls ending to the head and the tail, it’s sort of an peculiar position for a snake to be in naturally. I love this piece because of the atmosphere it gives, i like the intricate details that add to the whole piece and i love the images it makes you create in your head. This sculpture is represents escape and near misses as it says in its title. The sculpture reflects by the twigs on its body, like spidery fingers trying to trap you but there is still enough room to