The Form 6 and 7 Art and Critical and Contextual Students were lucky enough to have a talk by London-based artist, Charley Peters on Wednesday as part of the School’s Torch Series.
Charley is predominantly a painter who works on large dynamic paintings that combine expressive marks and precisely controlled shapes that evidence a distinct visual language.
Charley spoke to the students about her approach to art making as well as showing some key projects to demonstrate the versatility she needs to make it as an artist.
She has worked on commissions for ITV and Facebook, as well as making work for urban spaces to bring art into people’s everyday lives. She has also shown her work in a range of gallery settings.
Recently, she has been exploring the use of augmented reality and engaged with the students about other projects where she had worked using unconventional surfaces as the canvas.
The idea of putting art in unexpected spaces is important to Charley and she shared a recent project where she was commissioned to change a space in a town that had perhaps been forgotten.
What was interesting for the art students, was to hear someone talk about the influences of an artist and how their life and experiences had fed into their visual language.
Charley spoke so honestly about how her early life and obsessions could still be seen in the work she produced but that her work was also shaped by important painters from the 20th Century that she learnt about at art college.
