Being someone's muse is a beautiful experience. I have worked with photographers in the past and have become a muse for a few select people, I feel that when you work with someone a number of times you both get to know each other and start producing incredible (personal) imagery. It is hard to get to know the people you work with in depth for a number of reasons, mainly due to time restrictions but often people are quite private and we only show what we feel is necessary or appropriate.
I met Adam about 5 or so years ago. I am always excited to work with artists as the results are often so different to photography - I think paintings especially require a specific mood and can be very personal. An artist spends hours (often weeks) perfecting a single image - thier perception of you. This is not to discredit photography in any way; equal amounts of time can be spent capturing that perfect moment on camera, or enhancing said images with photoshop or other programmes. They are just two very different ways to capture what is effectively the same thing: me.
As an art student, I have always had a keen interest in art and I like to spend my (rare) free time wandering around art galleries, visiting museums and sat in the studio painting. I'm always intrigued as to how other people will paint me, what their perception will be and how much of the "real me" will be captured in their work.
I think this was the foundation for a very solid friendship that developed between me and Adam, we have been best friends ever since and after my return from Japan he was the first to help encourage me to follow my own passions and get back infront of a camera - it just so happened that those images were to be used for paintings!
Adam has been a huge inspiration in my journey so far and was the main person that inspired me to study art in the first place. I have been very keen to learn the process that he follows from taking the pictures through to producing a final painting. I have closely watched as he has created numerous works and have tried to incorporate his ways of working into my own paintings. Adam usually paints in oils and I really like the effects created, I also like that you can keep working into oils and blending colours all the time as they stay wet for quite a long time.
“Falling Down” is another of the first paintings Adam did of me since my return to the UK and it really inspired me to start modelling again as I love the creativity involved in being a part of someone else’s artwork. I was very impressed to see this piece as it was painted as I feel his technical skill and refinement has improved massively since I last saw [if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"></v:stroke> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></v:f> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></v:f> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></v:f> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></v:f> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></v:f> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></v:f> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></v:f> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></v:f> </v:formulas> <v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"></v:path> <o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t"></o:lock> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_8" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Description: E:\Adam Hornsby\image2.JPG" style='position:absolute; margin-left:327.75pt;margin-top:107.25pt;width:150.75pt;height:155.5pt; z-index:-251652096;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square; mso-width-percent:0;mso-height-percent:0;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt; mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:absolute; mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative:text;mso-width-percent:0;mso-height-percent:0; mso-width-relative:page;mso-height-relative:page'> <v:imagedata src="file://localhost/Users/Rachel/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0/clip_image001.jpg" o:title="image2.JPG"></v:imagedata> <w:wrap type="tight"></w:wrap> </v:shape><![endif][if !vml][endif]his earlier works (though it had been several years!)
I also helped exhibit this piece of work and some of his other Once-upon-a-time collection at The Ideal Home Show in November which was something I had also never done. It taught me a lot about how and where to sell artwork (which was a side I had not previously thought much about!)
Since then, as my passion for creating and being a part of various artwork has grown I am happy to say I have become Adam's muse.
His latest collection is a more "Fine Art" style and I hope all my posing has been inspirational (the amount of images he's currently working on would suggest so!) I'm really excited to be a part of this and always look forward to seeing the next image as I always say it is even better than the previous!! :D
I am continually amazed and can't wait to see this as a finished collection!! Here are a few works in progress:
And a few final pieces:
Of course, there always has to be a few behind the scenes images so here are some of my favourites:
Thanks for reading :D
You can view more of Adam's work at the links below,
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