Confessional statement.

In my practise the go to process is lino print that is digitally edited then screen printed into the final image. This is very time consuming and required a lot of strategic planning. However it was giving me strong results and my skills in it improved as I repeated it. But I would say that my biggest fear lies in fear of getting things wrong by making work that is quick ,simple and experimental. A process lead practise is key to how I work and I am not making enough use of experimentation and play opportunities that I have with this approach.  I now feel that this is hindering the development of my practise. Normally I like to take time to plan an idea but I have realised that there are definite hesitation and a lack of confidence in making work that is quick and using experimentation as a key part of this. I also never use block shapes and bright colours together, so a more graphic approach to image making. But after the second 7x7 task, where I set myself the challenge to apply a new technique that forced me to use all of the new approaches above, but to a time constraint of half an hour. I was surprised to find that I found the process successful and enjoyable. Working with bright colours and shape is very different tone wise to what I normal make and it is perfect for making an image or pattern more light heart but more crucially appealing. Like I said in my statement of intent, I want to explore printed textiles more. So, carrying on this method of working quickly and through experimentation could be a good approach. While using this process I also felt free and less constricted. And it made me think in a different way and helped to move away from the more representational approach that I fell into towards the end of 2^nd year, which I am please about as I felt the images where quite dull. The new approach, even though still print based it is more exciting and fun to do !  I am not going to completely discount lino print as I feel I have a high skill set ( a potential USP) in this ,but I will now be using smaller amounts of this process and increasing the amount of experimentation I use to create work. A new aim for my practise is to create an element that is exciting, experimental and fun.