Alyssa John

Drawing of DLR train seat 

inspired by initial theme talking colour in London I chose to draw the train seat from the dlr train which incorporated a pattern I consider nostalgic as someone who grew up taking this train everyday to school.

while originally thinking about colour from the image of the dlr, while exploring ways to think about patterns, I thought shapes also developed in the pattern on the chair.

1-54 African art fair @ Somerset House

inspired after attending the 1-54 African art fair at Somerset house , I chose to make explore the patterns I saw in the art pieces displayed through drawings done with oil pastels and crayons. As well as lines and various ways stripes were displayed, i was inspired by the use of black and white as well as natural colours to form patterns.

Collage from images of Dalston market and London fields

When exploring Dalston and London Fields with my group , colour became most evident to us through the market in Dalston. We took pictures in the hair shop of wigs and hair products as well as fruit stall in the market.

To develop our ideas further for this project , we collaged with those photos and drawings

individual collage I made with the pictures taken from hair shops printed on polaroids and drawings from Dalston fruit market.

To explore colour even more drew on cling film with ink markers, then printed it on my collage.