Meet Antoniela Ginourie, one of the Northern Girls whose skills straddle ceramics and painting! Q: How do you approach the creative process? Do you plan meticulously or embrace spontaneity? A: As a painter and ceramic artist I do both. Nature is a constant inspiration for me and I always carry a sketchbook to record random visual elements. It is always good to have a feeling of the painting you going to create. Being in situ, making short sketches or feeling the atmosphere whether its calm, rough, storming, cold and hot. I take photos of texture on the rocks, of trees. All these things in nature are endless. I can spend days on long walks on the beach and country side. This “Sense of place”, its very important to me when I start a painting or create a piece of ceramic work. Q: What techniques or mediums do you use to create your artwork? A: I use acrylics and sometimes oils but prefer acrylics as it gives me the freedom to work with spontaneity.With ceramics I love to work with porcelain, crank or stoneware clay depending what I am making. Mylove for texture is present in most of my work, paintings or ceramics. Q: Are there any specific artists or art movements that have influenced your style? A: The Impressionist movement are a great influence in my work. Without this movement, we would not be where we are now in the “art world” but there are others like Turner, Picasso, and John knapp-Fisher, a Pembrokeshire artist, that I had the pleasure to meet and invited to see his studio. David Tress another great painter of today. Q: Can you explain the concept or message behind your work? A: My work is a balance between figurative and abstract representation Q: What emotions or reactions do you hope to evoke in viewers through your art? A: Picasso wrote “The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap piece of paper, from a passing shape from a spider web ...” The emotions or reactions from people can be extremely different. However, I think, for people to like it or to buy it, they must feel some sort of emotion or attraction that triggers a memory or a feeling.
Q: How do you know when a piece is finished? Do you ever feel tempted to keep making changes?
A: My painting might take months, weeks or days to finish. When I am happy with it and it gives me that lovely feeling inside that I can’t explain ,then I know not to touch it again. With my ceramics, it’s different. I plan and sketch what I am going to make but many times I end up with a completely different piece of work. Q: Do you sell your work online? A: No I am not that clever or have interest with computers. I am lucky, that when people buy my work they always come back or recommends me to their friends. Q: Where else can we see your work? A: My work can be seen at different exhibitions throughout the year; Two Doors Studios, Alsager; Emerging Artists at Pott Shrigley; Sandy lane Gallery & tearoom Macclesfield; The Northern Girls Exhibition. Q: Do you accept commissions? A: I have in the past. At the moment, I am doing one for a beach place in Portugal, depending on what the client wants. You can see more of Antoniela's work at: FACEBOOK: AntonielaGinourie INSTAGRAM:@antonielaginourie WEBSITE : www.antoniela.co.uk
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