Caitlin Hackett

I have chosen to blog about this artist because I am obsessed with her work. Caitlin Hackett's subject matter is based around the natural world and the relationship that us humans have with the nature and the ways in which we effect it. I came across her work when I was carrying out some anatomy research for my A Level Fine Art project. I was immediately drawn to it because I loved her strange, rather melancholic interpretation of this subject matter. Hackett has a particular interest in the biological changing of animals due to the changing surroundings and I love the fact that she has taken the inactive and combined humans and animals together in some of her drawings. Even though its quite daunting to look at, it gets the point across.

The mediums that she uses are very similar to what I like to use. She often uses ball point pen with a mixture of coloured pencil or watercolour on paper. For me, using ball point pen to create detail is one of the most therapeutic way to go about it. 

I have been really influenced by this artist and her work because it has encouraged me to stop sugar coating my own drawings and designs. I often worry that some of the ideas I have area bit strange and may be taken in the wrong way, but i've really related to Hackett's drawings and have been so inspired to keep pursuing my ideas. I find it so refreshing to see that somebody has taken this subject matter and put a completely unique turn on it. So may people have looked at this work I have researched and told me that they find it "terrifying" or "creepy" but that is what I love about it. I like the fact that this work is able to spark such a mixture of reactions from people.