However, by pure luck or fate, whatever you want to call it, I happily stumbled upon an artist on my sister's tumblr. So then I went and checked out two artists websites, one is a photographer, while the other is collaboration of two artists that work together.
Firstly, photographer Lalage Snow, who is based in London, did a series of photographs of solider's before they went to fight in Afghanistan, while they were there and after they returned. I hate to think whether or not she had photos of some soldiers of before and there and not when they return as it is a horrible reality. Her work really made me appreciate the value of my own life and the insignificance of my hardships compared to theirs.
I felt truly inspired by her work and thought it was perfect for my theme, so if anyone else is interested I shall paste the link to her website below.
I really think that something about their eyes is really haunting as especially after reading about their experiences on the artists website.
Website: http://lalagesnow.com/
The other artist I found is the collaborative art of Cara Thayer and Louie Van Patten who work primarily with oil on canvas. I really like the messy style and use of colours adapted for skin tones which I think creates a unique effect and something I definitely want to try myself.
If you are reading this blog post and are into art I really recommend you check these artists out as their work is really interesting.
Artists Cara and Louie have their own blogspot sight that I will link below but sadly for any Brits they are based in the states which is pretty far to go to visit their work in a gallery but I will link there gallery showings below
Gallery Locations: http://www.thegryllus.com/bio.html
Blogspot: http://thegryllus.blogspot.co.uk/
Website: http://www.thegryllus.com
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