Engage Artist

Jean Baynham

Year:
2014-15
Location:
Whitby, North Yorkshire, UK
Email:
jean_baynham@hotmail.co.uk
Project summary:

My research seeks to encourage us to look at the world around us anew, by recognising natural patterns and considering their function, their evolution and their beauty.

I spend a lot of time contemplating naturally occurring geometric shapes; shapes found again and again in nature and frequently echoed in the man-made. This love of geometric form helps to stimulate and generate new ideas, both for finding hidden beauty and for creating something new and instinctively engaging. I believe my work to be a synthesis of art and science, drawing from each in a quest for beauty (in simple proportions and pattern) with the hope of creating something extraordinary.

From this conceptual foundation my work has explored further concerns. I have always used everyday, mass-produced, throwaway products as materials for the construction of my forms and the process of making is a vital part of my practice. Frequently the materials I use can direct and influence the end product and the work becomes enriched by unexpected discoveries.

I enjoy the fact that even though my inspiration is nature and the organic, the materials I use are man made, industrial and mass-produced, a conscience effort on my part to celebrate the inventiveness of both man and nature.

Above all I want to create objects in their own right, independent forms that have a presence in the space they occupy, asking questions of the viewer, to encourage further investigation and to carry on with my search into understanding the world around us through my research into mathematics and patterns.

 

My research seeks to encourage us to look at the world around us anew, by recognising natural patterns and considering their function, their evolution and their beauty.

I spend a lot of time contemplating naturally occurring geometric shapes; shapes found again and again in nature and frequently echoed in the man-made. This love of geometric form helps to stimulate and generate new ideas, both for finding hidden beauty and for creating something new and instinctively engaging. I believe my work to be a synthesis of art and science, drawing from each in a quest for beauty (in simple proportions and pattern) with the hope of creating something extraordinary.

From this conceptual foundation my work has explored further concerns. I have always used everyday, mass-produced, throwaway products as materials for the construction of my forms and the process of making is a vital part of my practice. Frequently the materials I use can direct and influence the end product and the work becomes enriched by unexpected discoveries.

I enjoy the fact that even though my inspiration is nature and the organic, the materials I use are man made, industrial and mass-produced, a conscience effort on my part to celebrate the inventiveness of both man and nature.

Above all I want to create objects in their own right, independent forms that have a presence in the space they occupy, asking questions of the viewer, to encourage further investigation and to carry on with my search into understanding the world around us through my research into mathematics and patterns.

 

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