BIOGRAPHY
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Page Artist:
Jemma Rix,
UK
Jemma
Rix Born in Cambridge 1969
Raised in small village in Bedfordshire
Art foundation Course at Barnfield College Luton Beds
BA Hons printed textile design, Loughborough College of Art and Design
1990.
Over
the years I have shown my work in galleries and restaurants, cafes and
libraries. I have undertaken private commissions and have been an art
slave to De-Montfort Fineart. I also work as a participatory artist
with children and adults. I am a founder member of ArtSpace
(http://www.artspace-lboro.co.uk/), Loughborough.
I developed my method of working as a bedroom artist after leaving
college. Sitting on my bed I drew things from around the room: little
still lifes, painted wooden horses and metal chickens. With a board on
my lap inked up with oil paint I drew onto tissue paper then glued the
image over a painted background, working back into it with acrylic and
pastel. I still work in the same way.
My
images usually have irregular edges and are very bright. I have tried
to be more subtle but I just can't do it. I will leave the subtle
classy images to Barbara Bagley. My influences include Indian and
Aboriginal art, Max Ernst and Raw art, children's book illustration
and packaging. The animals that star in the pictures are characters
from my children's books which I will publish one day. They are the 'I
Spy Friends' and the 'Birdland' birds watch out for more characters to
join them soon.
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here for Jemma's Gallery
"Basically
I
use
flowers
in
landscape
as
motifs
for
people
growing
through
experience,
they
are
rooted
and
growing
towards
the
sky,
the
future.
You
need
to
have
strong
roots,
a
strong
family
but
need
to
dream,
to
reach
upwards
and
move
on
through
life."
oil
and
collage
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