Emily Robertson’s interview with contemporary artist Emma Barone.
Emily Robertson is an A level student of Exeter College in Devon England and is currently taking textiles, journalism, media studies, and English language. She intends to take business studies in university and is eager to have a career in fashion journalism. Her ambition is to work for Cosmopolitan or Vogue magazine.
Emily choose me for her project because the style of my work appealed to her.
She could relate to my choice of unusual yet unconventional colour schemes and the aesthetically pleasing and yet simple and detailed composition of my work.
Emily: What made you so interested in shoes?
Emma I use shoes as a template on which to base my artistic experiments. Shoes are like sculptures for the feet. I feel compelled to use shoes as subjects because of the way the shape of the shoe lends itself to the my choice of unusual colour schemes. Shoes have a certain presence, they have an instant recognition by the viewer,
each style of shoe is almost like a sculpture in structure form, amalgamated in the dimension of art.
Mixing & combining nature with manmade… the natural world with the material world, this is what intrigued me to pursue the idea of making paintings of shoes.
Emily: Do you incorporate yourself in any of your paintings?
Emma: Yes of course I incorporate myself into the paintings, I feel it would be impossible not to, there is a connection between the artist & the paintings, just as everything in this universe is connected to everything else. I create the art therefore I am totally connected with it and with what is happening around me on a day to day basis.
Emily: Why do you choose to draw them in an abstract way?
Emma: This is my unique style, I don’t consider my work abstract but do consider it contemporary. In the now, in the present.
Emily: What do shoes mean to you?
Emma: Shoes to me mean (being very obvious) foot ware, paintings on the other hand is an entirely different matter. It’s the transformation of the simple shoe into objects of desire through the medium of art. It’s not just about the aesthetic beauty of the shoes I paint it’s also about the magic & enjoyment that is captured during the process.
A new challenge begins every time I begin a new shoe painting.
Emily: Why did you choose to draw them?
Emma: It all started off when I decided to make a shoe painting for a friend and when it was finished I decided to make another and another and before I knew it I had a body of work and a solo exhibition entitled shoe show. I started off with a single thought and from that I realised the potential of what I had created. The more paintings I make of shoes the more prolific I have become in the process of making art.
Emily: Why do you choose clashing colours?
Emma: The colours I use compliment each other in an unconventional way, I wouldn’t consider them as ‘clashing’, more in harmony with what the human eye sees as attractive. These colours make you look twice, enticing the viewer into the fantasy of shoes, opening the eyes of the viewer with the familiarity of the shoes and the unfamiliarity of the colours captured on canvas. I see it as a feast for the eyes, a moment of beauty captured in the confines of a canvas. Most of us seek beauty in everything, these paintings fast track that process to produce instant gratification to my audience.
Emily Robertson is an A level student of Exeter College in Devon England and is currently taking textiles, journalism, media studies, and English language. She intends to take business studies in university and is eager to have a career in fashion journalism. Her ambition is to work for Cosmopolitan or Vogue magazine.
Emily choose me for her project because the style of my work appealed to her.
She could relate to my choice of unusual yet unconventional colour schemes and the aesthetically pleasing and yet simple and detailed composition of my work.
Emily: What made you so interested in shoes?
Emma I use shoes as a template on which to base my artistic experiments. Shoes are like sculptures for the feet. I feel compelled to use shoes as subjects because of the way the shape of the shoe lends itself to the my choice of unusual colour schemes. Shoes have a certain presence, they have an instant recognition by the viewer,
each style of shoe is almost like a sculpture in structure form, amalgamated in the dimension of art.
Mixing & combining nature with manmade… the natural world with the material world, this is what intrigued me to pursue the idea of making paintings of shoes.
Emily: Do you incorporate yourself in any of your paintings?
Emma: Yes of course I incorporate myself into the paintings, I feel it would be impossible not to, there is a connection between the artist & the paintings, just as everything in this universe is connected to everything else. I create the art therefore I am totally connected with it and with what is happening around me on a day to day basis.
Emily: Why do you choose to draw them in an abstract way?
Emma: This is my unique style, I don’t consider my work abstract but do consider it contemporary. In the now, in the present.
Emily: What do shoes mean to you?
Emma: Shoes to me mean (being very obvious) foot ware, paintings on the other hand is an entirely different matter. It’s the transformation of the simple shoe into objects of desire through the medium of art. It’s not just about the aesthetic beauty of the shoes I paint it’s also about the magic & enjoyment that is captured during the process.
A new challenge begins every time I begin a new shoe painting.
Emily: Why did you choose to draw them?
Emma: It all started off when I decided to make a shoe painting for a friend and when it was finished I decided to make another and another and before I knew it I had a body of work and a solo exhibition entitled shoe show. I started off with a single thought and from that I realised the potential of what I had created. The more paintings I make of shoes the more prolific I have become in the process of making art.
Emily: Why do you choose clashing colours?
Emma: The colours I use compliment each other in an unconventional way, I wouldn’t consider them as ‘clashing’, more in harmony with what the human eye sees as attractive. These colours make you look twice, enticing the viewer into the fantasy of shoes, opening the eyes of the viewer with the familiarity of the shoes and the unfamiliarity of the colours captured on canvas. I see it as a feast for the eyes, a moment of beauty captured in the confines of a canvas. Most of us seek beauty in everything, these paintings fast track that process to produce instant gratification to my audience.