Elizabeth Rose Friend

BA (Hons) Fine Art

Elizabeth Rose Friend

My art represents the emotions within the meaning of wearing makeup and how it can affect someone mentally. My inspiration comes from the world of Instagram, where many people go to see the “perfect” makeup look and I get inspired by my own makeup looks I create myself. As a makeup artist I like to help individuals turn into their best self and make them feel amazing, I take this meaning into my acrylic abstract paintings by showing the movement of emotions through shapes and splattered paint. In my abstract paintings I take the colours from a makeup look and I create shapes and motions to show inside the mind when dealing with mental health or anxiety and also to show what’s really behind the makeup. I want to show that sometimes makeup can be worn as a mask, I show this by using layers in my work and even though a person can be beautiful and happy on the outside, they might be struggling and feeling pain on the inside. The different textures and layers show the madness and over thinking of a person’s feelings that they’re not good enough.


Mae fy nghelf yn cynrychioli’r emosiynau o fewn yr ystyr o wisgo colur a sut y gall effeithio ar rywun yn feddyliol. Daw fy ysbrydoliaeth o fyd Instagram, lle mae llawer o bobl yn mynd i weld yr edrychiad colur “perffaith” ac rwy’n cael fy ysbrydoli gan yr edrychiadau colur rwyf yn eu creu fy hun. Fel artist colur, rwy’n hoffi helpu unigolion i droi yn fersiynau gorau ohonyn nhw eu hunain a gwneud iddynt deimlo’n anhygoel. Rwy’n cynnwys yr ystyr hwn yn fy mhaentiadau haniaethol acrylig drwy ddangos symudiad emosiynau drwy siapiau a phaent wedi’i dasgu. Yn fy mhaentiadau haniaethol, rwy’n cymryd y lliwiau o edrychiad colur ac yn creu siapiau a symudiadau er mwyn dangos y tu mewn i’r meddwl wrth ddelio ag iechyd meddwl neu orbryder a hefyd er mwyn dangos yr hyn sydd y tu ôl i’r colur. Rwyf am ddangos y gellir gwisgo colur fel mwgwd weithiau. Rwy’n dangos hyn drwy ddefnyddio haenau yn fy ngwaith ac er y gall person fod yn hardd ac yn hapus ar y tu allan, efallai ei fod yn dioddef ac yn teimlo poen y tu mewn. Mae’r gweadau a’r haenau gwahanol yn dangos gwallgofrwydd teimladau person a’r ffaith ei fod yn gorfeddwl, gan deimlo nad yw’n ddigon da.

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