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Name: Katie Hudson

School: Lady Margaret School

Town: London

Year: Year 12

Inspiration: As an artist, I'm interested in producing photo-realistic paintings of closely-cropped, bizarre and at times disturbing imagery. I enjoy working with the figure but wanted to explore various methods of abstraction, which took me down the route of looking at artists such as Helen Chadwick, Pipilotti Rist and Martin Parr who I found hugely inspirational through their work with the grotesque and with the latter in particular close-cropping. I knew that I wanted to keep working in this hyper-realist style but was keen to extend my horizons and explore abstraction further, which is where I gained my interest in cropping – images which are so closely zoomed in are hard to distinguish and work out and therefore look abstracted, although they may be taken straight from life.

Title: Listen Hard

Description: With this painting I wanted to achieve a similar effect to my previous one but develop it, and take it further. I was keen to explore abstraction through texture, of which there are several different types in this painting - the hair, the crusty face mask on the ear and the ketchup. I like the ambiguity of this technique - is the ketchup actually blood? What is the crust on the ear? I then decided to vary my use of materials by experimenting with a thick, crusty flour and water paste for the face mask, which I applied onto the canvas with a palette knife and then painted once dry.

Medium: Oil and flour and water paste on canvas

Width: 59.4cm Height: 84cm

Keywords: ambiguity, texture, ear