In my point of view, the artist Emma McLellan, in her entire spectrum of printing and painting work which represented the different color tone of ancient woman’s paintings in her previously work. And later of her masterpiece, she used different kind of animals, creature portraits to create series of pattern works. For example, she found some references from the books such as the medieval bestiary, then mixed with the ornamental curiosity. I am so festinated about some of her work like “Reiterate” and “Interior in Velvet Blue Damask,” those series of compositions which has made with different painting techniques, also drew by different methods. In “Reiterate,” she used William Morris work to recreate the new patterns with animals and flowers, and replicated the symmetrical images, such as flipping, or reflecting the layout. However, it just like same patterns connective together, then showed the particular format, it looks elegant and the whole layout shows ancient luxurious style.
Furthermore, most of her printing work was made by paint on panel and screen print techniques, also combined with science and technology by using Adobe photoshop, to rearrange the series of reflecting patterns. First, I like her exquisite drawing skills with fine lines to show the animal’s movement, and the strip on them bodies. In “Chimera Series”, at first I thought she used the black pen to draw the outline of the images, and the images shows vivid forms, just like every animal which drew on the car board, or canvases were have vitality, very natural movement such as creeping, climbing, walking, or standing.
Overall, to look though her subject matter, no matter used different methods, or materials, the whole body is strong and fascinating shows the new range of interesting compositions with the creatures and animals we did not see before. Her conceptual idea was kind of fairy tale and the characters whom from the myth, these ideas has developed the interesting atmosphere and the strong vision attract many people’s vision.
