About me
Imaginative, creative out of the box thinker and self motivated bright surreal humorous artist/poet and model with a litany of experience creating impressive fun and imaginative workshops for schools, artwork for exhibitions/commissions including for Channel 5, Liverpool Academy, hand made cards for Eye Candy shop Notts, Omma Gallery Greece, Manchester EiC, and more- see also for acting/modelling work.
JASMINE SURREAL
Art statement
Jasmine, surrealist artist, ex model, Jasminist, whose artwork is unlike anyone elses. Cats and toy cats are my passion. for fun toy cat videos.
My subjects are symbolic and surreal, but not on the surface - more of an in-depth surrealism where I am pouring out my heart and imagination - things I'd like to see in real life but never materialise so I realise them through the medium of painting. I'm inspired by my own imagination, just me really, although there are artists I like. Bosch, Magritte, Dorothea Tanning. I tend to draw the image on canvas with a pencil, mainly from my own head, unless I'm drawing someone like Steve Allen (a 1950s comedian and polyglot), when I used a photograph of him.
I'm very meticulous, because the images I realise are meticulous. There's a lot of detail there, hidden objects and faces, reversals of reality.I think there is an enormous streak of humour in this. I do have a surreal sense of humour. I like humorous things, so I think this is just going to come out in my work.I paint self portraits and usually in tandem with a cat or sometimes toy cats. I'm just obsessed with them; I love them. I think it's an extension of myself. The "fluff factor". They're very eye-catching; they're mesmerising with all this fluffiness.I don't just like to depict cats straight. I "humanify" them in a nonsensical way, like Persita (a toy cat). I extend things. I start with a leopard dress on the cat and then go on to a leopard beehive and a leopard cloud in a leopard world.
Its fantasy with reality mixed, often cute but with strange elements such as a toy cat as Zsa Zsa Cat-bor, with husbands by 'male' order, in hell, with cat shaped diamonds, birds using human implements like forks and scissors to get berries as they have a sore beak, lots of glorious puns and fun, and with a complexity and originality that makes it its own category in the art world.
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Skills
Acting, Alternative medicine, Cats, Commissions, Films, Fine Arts, Freeform dance, Health and safety, ideas, Improv, Journalism, Make up, Modelling, Organising exhibitions, Performance, presenting, sewing, Singing, Surrealism, Vintage costume, workshops, youtube
Sector Experience
Arts, Broadcasting, Exhibitions, Film (Short / Documentary), Fine Art, Painting & Sculpture, Health & Safety, Modelling, Music, Radio, Television
Awards
Runner Up, *2015, Runner Up, artist of the year, Arkbound-http://arkbound.com/competitions/#tab-id-3, SAA artist of the year, experimental category
Clients
BBC, Big Arts Week, Channel 5, Daily Life, Edward Lucie Smith, Kfm Radio, L:Scene, Mental Spaghetti, Merseyside Arts Magazine, Omma Gallery, Sefton Council, Stuckism