Of Art and Obscurity

Serena Boheimer – one of our Upper Sixth students – has been offered a place on Cardiff College of Art's Foundation course (she's also received offers from Byam Shaw and City & Guilds in London, but Cardiff is her first choice).

So we caught up with Serena today, and asked for a peek at what she's been working on recently.

Serena's chosen theme around which she's basing her current project is 'obscured'.

Experimenting with ideas and various media, Serena explored the concept of obscured faces:









From an initial interest in facial deformity, she shifted her focus towards objects or approaches that might obscure the face incidentally – the idea that a face might not be quite what it seems.






As part of the A level course, Serena has visited a number of exhibitions – recently, both Picasso and Bacon in London – and is conscious of the influence that these artists' work has had on her own.






Working with photos and tracing paper, she began to explore the idea of combining two faces – a concept she has now taken through to the hypnotic, somewhat unsettling piece she is currently working on. Here it is – some of the paint still wet! – on her easel in the Art department.





See more of Serena's work on d'Overbroeck's Flickr pages