Proposal:
Botanical works:
While typical botnical illustrations focus on capturing the details of a plant as part of a scientific study or record – my focus is to try capture the essence of a plant or a scene – the happenstance nature of it.
I typically work in two style one more illustrative and whimsical influenced from my training as an illustrator or the other being more stylised and graphic from my training as a graphic designer. As a way to bridge the skills and knowledge of art, architecture and design without the constraigns of a clients brief or a QS’s budget.
Mix media:
A material exploration of how to turn the intangible complexity of who we are as South Africans into tangible artifacts. They explore various combinations of forms, textures, materials and colours with the aim of translating that it means to be a – ‘‘foxy brown black white (yuppie) afro-funckster” (i-jusi issue #26) or “A (sharp looking) Irish-Afrikaans catholic Marxist Leninist Zulu historian with a hex or two“ (i-jusi issue #10:6) – into an interior specific spatial/material language which is rooted in the transformation of craft/craft techniques (part of our vernacular ) into art/design.
Biography:
Taryn King
Interior Architect, Graphic Designer, Artist and printmaker.
The works submitted are part of a deliberate tangent back to an early love.
As a child my first love was always art, skipping school to spend the day lost in a drawing. After school I studied graphic design and then interior architecture. Yet despite the rewards of professional practice, I rarely find myself spending a day getting lost in a design in quite the same manner as I get for working on an art piece.
So over the last few years I been making the effort to set time aside to loose a day working on an artwork and exploring my own creative style and process.
I principally work in lino-cut and watercolour with a focus on botanical illustrations. While typical botnical illustrations focus on capturing the details of a plant as part of a scientific study or record – my focus is to try capture the essence of a plant or a scene – the happenstance nature of it.
I typically work in two style one more illustrative and whimsical influenced from my training as an illustrator or the other being more stylised and graphic from my training as a graphic designer. As a way to bridge the skills and knowledge of art, architecture and design without the constraigns of a clients brief or a QS’s budget.
WORKS:
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Artist: Taryn King Title: Bushes & Bristles, 2020 Medium: Linocut Size: H:230 W:300 D: Edition:3 Price:R800 |
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Artist: Taryn King Title: Tswalu Blooms, 2020 Medium: Linocut Size: H:300 W:230 D: Edition:3 Price:R800 |
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Artist: Taryn King Title: Kuiseb Canyon – Namibia, 2020 Medium: Linocut and Pencil Size: H:300 W:400 D: Edition:3 Price:R1700 |
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Artist: Taryn King Title: Dragons Jewels, 2021 Medium: Linocut Size: H:700 W:900 D: Edition:2 Price:R2400 |
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Artist: Taryn King Title: Petals + Pins, 2021 Medium: Watercolour Size: H:300 W:420 D: Edition:0 Price:R1600 |
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Artist: Taryn King Title: Pincushion Posie, 2021 Medium: Watercolour Size: H:170 W:170 D: Edition:0 Price:R1000 |
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Artist: Taryn King Title: Foxy Brown Black White (Yuppie) Afro-funckster, 2016 Medium: Mix Medium Size: H:400 W:700 D:45 Edition:0 Price:R2400 |