I am an artist from Derbyshire and moved to Cambridge to study Fine Art where I have evolved my work into something that I really enjoy doing, with my main media being coloured pencil to create portraits.
I create coloured pencil portrait drawings on paper, using lots of bold and bright colours in an abstract style. I have used elemental and seasonal colours in my work, taking inspiration from outdoor surroundings referencing this in my portraiture. The use of these colours shows the progression of time in my pictures as well as the juxtaposition of opposite seasons and how the light and shade changes.
I draw my friends and family to show this period in my life and the community around me. More recently, I have started to use the relationships with the people in my portraits to inspire me and use colour more intuitively, mainly bright colours, which represent the people I draw. The action of drawing people is enjoyable because it captures the spirit of those important to me.
To make my work, I take posed portraits, selfies and natural unposed photos of my friends and family which I then draw from. To choose the colour palettes for these drawings, I pick out colours that I feel represent the person in the drawing and colours which make me happy while drawing.
Fine Art
Bethany Stoppard
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‘Community’ (2024) 42cm x 59.4cm - Part 1/3 in series about the people around me who are most important in my life, using the bright colours to represent them in my eyes.
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‘Community’ (2024) - Part 2/3 in series about the people around me who are most important in my life, using the bright colours to represent them in my eyes. ‘Community’ (2024) – Part 3/3 in series about the people around me who are most important in my life, using the bright colours to represent them in my eyes. Untitled (2024) – First drawing where I started to use colour intuitively to symbolise the people I was drawing. Untitled (2024) – Starting to draw selfies from happy memories and using bright colours to represent this. ‘Autumn’ (2024) – Using the natural world around me to inspire my colour palette, this one being an autumnal palette. ‘Vice Versa’ (2024) – Using colours that symbolised summer and winter to me and mirroring the image to show the opposites of the seasons within a portrait