A collection of sources to explore the work of Claes Oldenburg.

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Claes Oldenburg

The video below shows how Oldenburgs sculpture ‘BLT’ is built and rebuilt for every exhibition.

Watch the video below to find out more about Claes Oldenburgs ‘Store’.

Watch this video of Oldenburg discussing Shoestring Potatoes Spilling From a Bag (1966) on Vimeo here.

Questions to Ask Children

How do his sculptures make you feel?

Which food sculpture is your favourite? Why?

How do you think the sculptures feel?

If you created your own sculpture store, what would be in it?

How would it feel to be in that space, interacting with the sculptures?

What do you think Oldenburg was trying to say through his artwork?

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Pathway: Festival Feasts

This is featured in the ‘Festival Feasts’ pathway

using sketchbooks to make visual notes

Show me what you see

A collection of sources and imagery to explore the history of chair design.

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Explore how chair design has evolved over time with these video.

Questions to Ask Children

Out of the chairs you’ve seen, which is your favourite and why? How would it feel to sit in it?

What do you think designers throughout the ages were trying to say with their chairs?

Raw Edges designs Kenny chair and Sugar stool

Watch this video of a chair being built.

See how design firm Populous are coming up with new ideas for seating solutions in public spaces.

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Pathway: Take a Seat

This is featured in the ‘Take a Seat’ pathway

using sketchbooks to make visual notes

Find out how pupils can respond to artists work in sketchbooks

Show me what you see

Enable close looking and drawing with this exercise

A collection of sources and imagery to explore the work of Yinka Ilori.

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Yinka Ilori

Yinka Ilori is a multidisciplinary artist and designer with a bold bright visual language influenced by his British-Nigerian heritage. Three components that feature heavily in Yinka’s work are pattern, colour and storytelling.

Yinka uses his crafts as a way to communicate Nigerian parables and verbal traditions.

His work is described as a fusion between contemporary design and Nigerian tradition.

“If the chair you are sitting on could tell your story, would it be a dangerous or good thing?”

Explore some of Yinka’s chairs here.

Please note: Teacher Advisory. Pls watch the video below and decide if you would rather start the video after a few minutes in.

Explore Yinka’s collection ‘If Chairs Could Talk‘ alongside work by the poet Julian Knxx

Watch these videos made by the Craft Council about Yinka’s practise.

Questions to Ask Children

Make a list of everything that you can see in the classroom that has been designed by an artist/designer.

Spend 5 minutes designing a chair based on your mood right now, think about your decision making and annotate the design. 

Name colours that are happy/sad/angry/excited.

This Talking Points Is Used In…

Pathway: Take a Seat

This is featured in the ‘Take a Seat’ pathway

using sketchbooks to make visual notes

Find out how pupils can respond to artists work in sketchbooks

Show me what you see

Enable close looking and drawing with this exercise

A collection of sources and imagery to explore the work of Tomoko Kawao.

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Tomoko Kawao

Kawao’s work incorporates her whole body. Kawao focuses on the unbroken movement of brush and combining the English language with the Eastern calligraphic tradition. Tomoko’s practise extends into film, installation and performance.

Watch one of her performances below and prompt class discussion about the artist with the questions below.

Find a BBC Four Short about the work of Tomoko Kawao here.

Questions to Ask Children

What do you like/dislike about Kawao’s work?

How does her work make you feel?

Play some clips of different music genres and invite children to use their arms to create drawings in the air in response to the music.

This Talking Points Is Used In…

Pathway: Music and art

This is featured in the ‘Music and Art’ pathway

using sketchbooks to make visual notes

Show me what you see

A collection of sources and imagery to explore the work of Eric Carle.

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Eric Carle

Eric Carle is the author and illustrator of over seventy picture books for young children. The most well known book from this collection is The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

As a child, Carle’s dad would take him for walks through meadows, memories which heavily influenced his illustrations.

Visit Eric Carle’s website to explore more of his work.

Find out how Eric Carle paints tissue paper.

If your school has access to YouTube you may want to show the first 7 or so minutes of this documentary. 

Questions to Ask Children

Have you read The Very Hungry Caterpillar? (If you have the book in school it may be a nice idea to pass it round the class.)

What do you like about Eric Carle’s work?

How does the caterpillar in Eric Carle’s work make you feel?

What’s your favourite insect? Why?

This Talking Points Is Used In…

Pathway: Flora and Fauna

This is featured in the ‘Flora and Fauna’ pathway

using sketchbooks to make visual notes

Show me what you see

A collection of sources and imagery to explore the work of artists who were inspired by Flora and Fauna.

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Henri Rousseau

The Repast of the Lion (1907) by Henri Rousseau. Original from The MET Museum. 

Find out more about Rousseau on Google Arts & Culture. The painting in this link features nudity, however is nothing offensive. Please check any links before showing children as some may include content you would prefer not to show.

Questions to Ask Children

Describe what you see.

Look at the artwork as a whole – which words would you use to describe the whole piece?

Tell me about the details you like.

How does it make you feel?

Erin Anfinson

Hannah Borger

Amaryllis (1915) by Hannah Borger Overbeck. Original from The Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 

Questions to Ask Children

Describe what you see.

How do you think she decided how much detail to include or leave out?

Tell me about the details you like.

Jan van Kessel

Butterfly, Caterpillar, Moth, Insects, and Currants (1650-1655) painting in high resolution by Jan van Kessel. Original from The Getty.

See more images by Jan van Kessel here.

Questions to Ask Children

What can you see?

Why do you think he chose these insects and fruits to use in one composition?

Which words would you use to describe the whole piece?

Tell me about the details you like.

What materials has the artist used? 

Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Explore blooming flowers and fruit trees like: daffodils, tiger lilies, and plum trees.

Peach from La Botanique de J. J. Rousseau by Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840). Original from the Library of Congress.

See more artwork by Redoute here. 

Questions to Ask Children

What do you see?

How has the artist given the image dimention?

Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt

Natural History Ensemble, no. 7 (1596-1610) by Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt. Original from the Rijksmuseum. 

Questions to Ask Children

What can you see?

Why do you think he selected these items to use in one composition?

Which words would you use to describe the whole piece?

Tell me about the details you like.

How do the colours make you feel?

This Talking Points Is Used In…

Pathway: Flora and Fauna

This is featured in the ‘Flora and Fauna’ pathway

using sketchbooks to make visual notes

Show me what you see

A collection of imagery and sources designed to stimulate conversation around the work of Lauren Child.

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Lauren Child

Lauren Child is a childrens book author and illustrator. She is well known for the collection of books ‘Charlie and Lola’ which were later adapted into a childrens animation. 

Find out more about Lauren’s creative process in the sources below.

Lauren’s Website

Apologies if you cannot view these videos below on Youtube because your school has blocked Youtube. 

Illustrating Pippa Longstockings Goes Abroad

Questions to Ask Children

What do you like about the character Pippi Longstocking?

How might you make Pippi Longstockings move?

Why do you think that Lauren layers the body parts?

Questions to Ask Children

Who’s your favourite book character? Why do you like them so much?

Notice how the illustrator and designer work together. What did they do that was so important?

This Talking Points Is Used In…

Pathway: Making Animated Drawings

This is featured in the ‘Making Animated Drawings’ pathway

using sketchbooks to make visual notes

Find out how pupils can respond to artists work in sketchbooks

Show me what you see

Enable close looking and drawing with this exercise

A collection of imagery and sources designed to help you explore the potential of Cyanotype.

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What is a Cyanotype?

A cyanotype is a photographic process which results in a cyan coloured print. The process involves a combination of iron salts which are then exposed with Ultra Violet light. The surface for the print then needs to be washed in water oxidise to achieve the blue.

The process was developed in the 1800s and is still used today.

Explore the sources and images below to find out how cyanotypes can be used.

Fabric 

Bound Books

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Pathway: using natural materials to make images

This is featured in the ‘Using Natural Materials to Make Images’ pathway

using sketchbooks to make visual notes

Show me what you see

This collection of videos and sources will help you explore the work of Anna Atkins.

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Anna Atkins

Anna Atkins was a botanist and photographer in the 1800s. She is considered as the first person to publish a book of photographs.

The process she used was called cyanotype. This used light exposure and a simple chemical process to create blueprints of botanical specimens. 

To read more about the invention of photographs explore this Google Arts and Culture resource.

Explore the images and sources below and use the questions to inspire classroom discussion.

Schizonema Dillwynii by Anna Atkins, Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005

Spiraea aruncus (Tyrol) by Anna Atkins, Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2004

Questions to Ask Children

What do you like about these images? How are they different from photographs you see today?

Can you think of a plant/flower that would create an interesting cyanotype?

Can you draw the outline of an Oak leaf? What about a Holly leaf?

This Talking Points Is Used In…

Pathway: using natural materials to make images

This is featured in the ‘Using Natural Materials to Make Images’ pathway

using sketchbooks to make visual notes

Show me what you see

A collection of imagery and sources designed to stimulate conversation around the work of Frances Hatch.

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Frances Hatch

Frances is a plein-air artist who responds creatively to the landscape around her. Frances uses the natural materials available to her in the environment that she is painting in, for example soil and grass or rock pigment. 

“I am a participant in a conversation with the land. I respond rather than impose – working with what is given.”

Questions to Ask Children

How do you think that dipping paper in water changes the quality of the pencil?

Is there a space in your local area where you would like to sit and draw?

Watch this video without volume on. Then play it with the volume on but ask the children to close their eyes and just listen. Finally watch the video again with eyes open and volume on. 

Questions To Ask Children

Does the painting feel different when you tune into the sounds of the city? How so?

Questions to Ask Children

How would you describe Frances’s work?

How does it make you feel?

How would you describe the colours that she uses?

Can you name some natural materials that could be used for drawing and painting from around your local area?

Resource on AccessArt: Working WITH and IN the Landscape

Explore the resource “Working With and IN the landscape by Frances Hatch“. 

This Talking Points Is Used In…

Pathway: using natural materials to make images

This is featured in the ‘Using Natural Materials to Make Images’ pathway

using sketchbooks to make visual notes

Show me what you see

This collection of videos and sources will help you explore the work of Lotte Reiniger.

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Lotte Reiniger was a German animation pioneer in the early 20th Century. Reiniger’s work focused on silhouette animation, she made over 40 films throughout her lifetime. 

Reiniger invented the first multi-plane camera, an invention which Walt Disney would later go on to adapt and patent for himself. 

Reiniger enjoyed retelling fairytales though silhouette animation and went on to create animations for Cinderella, Thumbelina and also spent 3 years making the first feature film The Adventures of Prince Achmed.

You might recognise her influence in more recent films, such as in the credits of the 2004 film ‘A Series of Unfortunate events’ or in the ‘Tale of three Brothers’ in Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows pt 1.

Watch the videos below to find out more about the work and life of Lotte Reiniger.

Watch this video to find out more about her process.

Questions to Ask Children

Do you like Lotte Reiniger animations?

How do her animations compare with modern day Disney and Pixar animation?

Can you imagine why they were so ground breaking at the time?

Is there a story that you would like to see animated in this way?

How might you make a character seem excited through body movements alone? What about sad?

Thumbelina by Lotte Reiniger

Show this short clip to your class.

Questions to Ask Children

How would you describe the movements of the puppet?

Take a guess at how many different pieces had to be cut out for the puppet to dance?

Where do you think joins had to be made for movements?

Watch the clip again and ask children to create blind and continuous line drawings (not looking at the page) in a sketchbook of the puppet dancing. Ask them to look at the arms and legs and just draw whatever movement grabs their attention as the clip plays. 

Watch clips of the credits animation for the 2004 film ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ and inspire discussion using the questions below.

Questions to Ask Children

What similarities can you see between this animation and the work of Lotte Reiniger?

What differences can you see?

This Talking Points Is Used In…

Pathway: Shadow Puppets

This is featured in the ‘Shadow Puppets’ pathway

using sketchbooks to make visual notes

Show me what you see

A collection of imagery and sources designed to explore paper cut puppets.

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Holly Summerson

Holly is an animator, illustrator and community artist specialising in 2D, hand-made and mixed-media techniques.

This showreel was made from selected paper-cut animations from a recent project for Coppice Theatre.

Jamie Caliri

Jamie Caliri is a filmmaker and cinematographer in live action and animation. Watch some of the videos below to see how he directs paper cut and 3D animations.

Questions to Ask Children

How would you describe the movements that the puppets make? 

Thinking about facial expressions and eye movements, how would you make a paper puppet seem happy? Sad? Excited? Mysterious? Up to no good?

This Talking Points Is Used In…

Pathway: Making Animated Drawings

This is featured in the ‘Making Animated Drawings’ pathway

using sketchbooks to make visual notes

Find out how pupils can respond to artists work in sketchbooks

Show me what you see

Enable close looking and drawing with this exercise

A collection of imagery and sources designed to explore the different ways in which drawings can move.

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Steve Kirby and Andrew Fox

Calligraphy Animals Animated is a collaboration between calligrapher Andrew Fox and director and animator Steve Kirby.

Questions to Ask Children

What shapes can you see?

Which animal in this animation is your favourite? Why?

If you could make a calligraphy animal that would appear in this animation what would it be? How would it move?

Why is collaboration important?

Lucinda Schreiber

Lucinda is an Australian director, animator and illustrator. Find more of Lucinda’s work here.

Questions to Ask Children

How does this animation make you feel?

What is a ‘transition?’ How many did you spot in this animation?

What is your favourite part of the animation?

Animated Afganistan Children’s Drawings

Questions to Ask Children

How do you feel when you watch this animation?

Which are your favourite parts?

Workshop with Tracy Miller-Robbins

This animation is a result of a “Animated Drawings” workshop at MODE 2017: Motion Design Education Summit, Ohio State University.

Questions to Ask Children

This animation was made as a result of a workshop. Which parts inspire you?

Two Animation Winners…

The following animations won a competition to encourage children and teenagers to make time to be creative…

Questions to Ask Children

What do you think about the way the children choose to communicate their message?

This Talking Points Is Used In…

Pathway: Making Animated Drawings

This is featured in the ‘Making Animated Drawings’ pathway

using sketchbooks to make visual notes

Find out how pupils can respond to artists work in sketchbooks

Show me what you see

Enable close looking and drawing with this exercise

A collection of imagery and sources designed to introduce children to Installation Art.

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What is Installation Art?

Installation Art often occupies large rooms or spaces. It is usually designed for a specific environment for a temporary period of time. Installation art can often be engaged with and is meant to create a unified experience for the viewer.

Inflatable Installations

Tentacles in Philadelphia, USA – Filthy Luker and GroupX

Filthy Luker creates inflatable installations designed to make our environments more fun and surreal.

Questions to Ask Children

How does this installation make you feel?

What kind of creature is hidden inside the building? How many eyes does it have?

How many shoes would this creature need?

Is there a building in your local area that you would like to see an inflatable creature in?

Light Installations

Liz West is an Internationally Acclaimed Visual Artist who uses light as a tool, controlling the amount, shape, form, size, colour, strength and quality to fill architectural or fabricated structures. Liz’s installations immerse the viewer in saturated environments and are known to stir up emotional responses in those who see it. Find out more about Liz West in her “Which Artists?” post.

Questions to Ask Children

How does this installation make you feel?

How does the environment that the installation is in, change the way you experience it?

How do you think it would feel to interact with this installation?

How has the installation transformed the environment?

This Talking Points Is Used In…

Pathway: Brave Colour

This is featured in the ‘Brave colour’ pathway

using sketchbooks to make visual notes

Find out how pupils can respond to artists work in sketchbooks

Show me what you see

Enable close looking and drawing with this exercise

A collection of imagery and sources designed to introduce children to Projection Mapping.

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Introduction

The following videos and weblinks explore different uses of projection mapping.

Projection mapping is a type of digital installation art. Artists project digital film or imagery onto unusual surfaces such as buildings or irregularly shaped objects, creating optical illusions.

Projection mapping requires spatially mapped specialist software that allows designers to mimic the environment that it is being projected onto, whilst playing with dimensions and movement of static objects.

Music and Projection Mapping by Light Odyssey

“2018 Light Odyseey transformed the Iconic Empress Ballroom in Blackpool to a 2D and 3D projection mapping canvas for seven different animations. Over 20 projectors were set up to cover the huge space of the ballroom, resulting in a spectacular light stage for the animations.”

Questions to Ask Children

How have the animations interacted with the architecture as well as the music?

How does it make you feel?

Do you think that the animation adds to the music or does it distract you? Why?

Projection Mapping and Architecture

This video contains flashing imagery.

A projection mapped piece comissioned by People’s Association Singapore for the Passion Arts initiative. Video: Brandon Tay/ Chew Ming Wee
Sound: Safuan Johari

Questions to Ask Children

How does the animation interact with the building?

Does it remind you of anything?

Is there an interesting building within your community that you would like to put a projected animation or film onto?

This Talking Points Is Used In…

Pathway: Music and art

This is featured in the ‘Music and Art’ pathway

using sketchbooks to make visual notes

Show me what you see

A collection of imagery and sources designed to introduce children to Zines.

This resource is free to access and is not a part of AccessArt membership.

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What is a Zine?

Zines are inexpensive or free way of making a self published publication. A focus on community is what makes a zine different to a comic or other types of publications. 

Find your message and get creative!

At 00.55 there is an explitive shown on screen. You may want to stop the video before this point.

Questions to Ask Children

What kind of issues would you make a zine about?

What change would you like to see within your local community? Think about shared spaces, environment, local services…

What would you like to celebrate within your local community?

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Introducing you to artist and activist Kate DeCiccio.

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Kate DeCiccio

Kate DeCiccio is an artist who reflects community stories through posters. Kate believes that portraits can help to shift narratives and are a great way to collaborate and share stories.

During the protest scene from 4.00 onwards there are expletives shown on screen on some of the posters . You may want to stop the video before this point.

Questions to Ask Children

What change would you like to see in the world and who could you create a portrait of to embody this message?

Why is collaboration important?

Spend 5 minutes working in pairs to note down (in sketchbooks) imagery and words that could be on a poster about your local community.

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A collection of imagery and sources designed to introduce children to the work of Danish artist Molly Haslund.

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The Circle Project by Molly Haslund

Teacher’s Notes

“Molly Haslund ventures out into the city wearing grey: a grey suit, grey socks and grey shoes so that she blends in with the tarmac and the pavement. She carries a huge pair of compasses much taller than herself. She stops somewhere and starts drawing a white circle on the ground. She completes the first circle and then moves the pair of compasses and starts drawing a new circle that overlaps the first one. She draws a third circle and stands in her grey shoes in the middle of the circle for a moment before snapping the pair of compasses together and moving on.” https://www.mollyhaslund.com/circles-2013-2

“… The focus is on the physical action, on the movement of the circles, and the patterns emerging and disappearing again – and of course the effect grows with the number of participants. on the other hand, if you want to draw alone, you can just withdraw a little from the rest. A bit like on the dance floor.”  Molly Haslund 

Watch the video with the pupils, and look at the images below. Find questions to prompt discussion at the end of this resource. 

Circles, Molly Haslund, 2015, New York, Peekskill Project #6, Hudson Valley MOCA, Photo by Joe Orangias

Circles (2013), Molly Haslund, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark, Photo by Matilde Haaning

Circles, Molly Haslund, 2014, Art Week, Superkilen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Photo by Matilde Haaning

Circles, Molly Haslund, 2014, Art Week, Superkilen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Photo by Matilde Haaning

Questions to Ask Children

How would you feel if you came across these circles in your street or playground, without knowing who had made them or why? What would you do? Would they change the way you move?

How do you think Molly, the artist, chooses where to make her circles?

How could you make similar circles in your playground, using chalk tied to sticks? 

How would the circles you make join up with the circles your friends make?

What would other pupils in your school think if they discovered your circles? What do you think they would do?

What other shapes could you make with your body in the playground? Would you need tools? 

If music played would you make different shapes? How would the shapes be different? 

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A collection of imagery and sources designed to stimulate an exploration of the brushwork of Van Gogh and Cezanne.

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Exploring the Brushwork of Van Gogh and Cezanne

If we zoom in and look closely at the brushwork of both Cezanne and Van Gogh you’ll see how they applied paint using fluid loose marks with complex colours, and yet when you stand back, the brush marks and the colours find their place to help tell the story of the painting.

In this resource we have zoomed in on sections of paintings to help pupils see the kinds of marks made by the painters. 

Use the questions at the end to help guide an exploration. 

Top: Detail: Wheat Field with Cypresses (1889) by Vincent Van Gogh. Original from the MET Museum.

Top: Detail: Three Apples (Deux pommes et demie) (ca. 1878–1879) by Paul Cézanne. Original from Original from Barnes Foundation.

Top: Detail: Houses and Figure (1890) by Vincent Van Gogh. Original from the Barnes Foundation. 

Top: Detail: Houses in Provence: The Riaux Valley near LEstaque (ca. 1883) by Paul Cézanne.

Top: Detail: The Bedroom (1889) by Vincent Van Gogh.

Questions to Ask Children

“Impasto” describes paint when it is applied so thickly onto the canvas that it remains raised. Can you see areas of impasto in the paintings above?

Can you find an area of a painting where the artist has let the colour of the canvas show through?

Can you find examples of where the artist hasn’t mixed the colour on a palette – instead he has applied wet paint of one colour over wet paint of another colour and you can see where it mixes on the canvas?

Think about direction of brush strokes – can you find an area of canvas where the brush strokes go a particular direction? How do the artists’ change the direction of the brush strokes according to the subject matter of what they are painting? 

How would you describe some of the brush strokes? Restful? Busy? Rhythmical? Chaotic? 

Can you see areas of the paintings where the artist uses outlines? Doesn’t use outlines?

How many different colours can you spot in a particular area of canvas? Do you think the artist gives those colours names?

What kinds of tools or brushes do you think the artist might have used? 

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A collection of imagery and sources designed to stimulate conversation around the work of Charlie French.

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Charlie French

“I embrace a blank canvas with a sense of wonder and adventure.”

Charlie French is an abstract painter, living in London. 

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In the Fathoms Below, copyright Charlie French

“What inspires you?”

“I am asked that question a lot. And I think there are obvious ones you see in my series: Disney movies, music, the ocean, the beautiful world I see, my happy memories and an imagination that cracks me up.

And lots of times I am inspired simply by my love of COLORS and SHAPES. I pick my colour palette and just paint.

The truth is that every day is different. But I am most happy when I can walk up to a canvas and let go. I am free. Freedom in life is very important. Don’t you think, Friends???”

Copyright Charlie French

Copyright Charlie French

Questions to Ask Children

How would you describe Charlie’s work?

How does it make you feel?

How would you describe the colours?

Charlie thinks it’s important to feel free and have the space to explore in your artwork. Would you agree? Have you ever felt like that? How do you think he lets himself feel like that?

When Charlie puts the paint on the canvas, what kinds of movements does he make with his body? Can you do “air painting” and move your arm as you think he did to apply the paint? Stand up! 

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