Artist Inspiration: Lianne Harrison

Lianne Harrison

I like these pieces where the paper people are standing. I think it is really interesting as it looks like a pop-up.

An analysis into the work of Lianne Harrison; an illustrator and designer.

The work of Lianne Harrison has been used for various editorials and publishing and is mainly mix media pieces, using various techniques to create an images. Within her work there is illustration, collaging, paper and layering in order to layout the different materials.

I like this work because it is quirky, but it also appeals to my sense of touch as well as sight. The use of mix materials appear in a way that their are various surfaces which feel different. The body of the person look like felt whilst the beek looks like paper. When I firsted saw this piece I thought about how each section of the character felt. I like that there is a range of materials used because it involves more than once sense of the viewer. If I choose my idea to create an artist book I will take this into consideration, as I want t present my photography in a way which stands out to the viewer. If I am to create an interactive box instead then this idea of a mix of materials will be useful when thinking of surface designs.

The use of colour is important in this piece. There is a lot of green and yellows used to create the person on the page. Greens are also used to colours the title of the article. I think matching the images on the page with the text ensures that the page is not too busy, and it is more easy on the eye. Leaving a lot of white space around the image also contributes to this as the article is more easier to read if the image that goes with it is not too busy. The use of green throughout the page goes with the "theme" of the article which I believe is 'Wellbeing'. When thinking about wellbeing I think healthy and natural, the colour green is associated with these words,

This piece is likely to be used for a magazine because of the way it has been laid out. The text in the bottom-right coner look like the beginnings of an articles, and the larger green text looks like the title for the piece. Looking at this work helped me to see how the layout of work is important, but also how useful it is to have colour coordinationing with the theme of the piece.

My Lianne Harrison inspired work

Below are my Lianne Harrison inspired pieces. First I photographed portrait images, then cut out newspaper pieces, and some of my other photography work to create collaged photographic pieces. I think my pieces are slightly more humorous than Harrison's, but I still hoped to keep the same layered effect. I added hand written text into some of the pieces to try and make Harrison's work into more my style. The mix of colours were to make the piece more interesting, so I used black and white photography and then put coloured newspaper parts upon it. I think this helped to make the piece more dimensional, although if I added different surface textures like Lianne Harrison the work would be more eye-catching, as well as more appealing to the other senses.

I do like collaging and I think this is a technique I will try again, as I like playing with photography that I have done and transforming it into something else.