Time After Time
Cobbled Street-Bremen
Implicate Order
X-ray
Copenhagen Metro Station
Siff Skovenborg is an interesting artist who defines her style as abstract and expressionistic. Siff was born in Jylland Denmark and has a diverse educational background in communications, psychology, and teaching. Siff has created beautiful works of digital art but also has a background in painting, writing, singing, and photography. I found her digital art and photographs to reflect humanistic subject matter along with the intricate framework within the human psyche. Time and self reflection are recurrent themes in her work. The photograph of the Copenhagen Metro Station just shouts out to me “who are you, where are you going, and when will you get there!”
X-ray is an example of Skovenborg’s pictures made in Photoshop with full or partial use of stock photo. This work of art incorporates a human x-ray in with a very textural organic design in shades of blue, white, and brown. One can hardly help but look into and analyze one’s inner self while viewing Siff Skovenburg’s art.
Siff states “My goal is to go with the flow in art making. I am trying not to be focused on ideas and mental restrictions. I do though use knowledge of composition in a later state ... So my aim is to let art come from a place beyond the conscious mind. This means in practice that when I start a new painting I do not know where to go or which kind of expression is going to come out of it. I simply start to put colour on paper or whatever comes to mind.” I find this approach to be remarkable because such powerful and meaningful images can be created not from focused intent but rather develop from the artist’s intuition and connection to the unconscious mind.
Copenhagen Metro Station
Siff Skovenborg is an interesting artist who defines her style as abstract and expressionistic. Siff was born in Jylland Denmark and has a diverse educational background in communications, psychology, and teaching. Siff has created beautiful works of digital art but also has a background in painting, writing, singing, and photography. I found her digital art and photographs to reflect humanistic subject matter along with the intricate framework within the human psyche. Time and self reflection are recurrent themes in her work. The photograph of the Copenhagen Metro Station just shouts out to me “who are you, where are you going, and when will you get there!”X-ray is an example of Skovenborg’s pictures made in Photoshop with full or partial use of stock photo. This work of art incorporates a human x-ray in with a very textural organic design in shades of blue, white, and brown. One can hardly help but look into and analyze one’s inner self while viewing Siff Skovenburg’s art.
Siff states “My goal is to go with the flow in art making. I am trying not to be focused on ideas and mental restrictions. I do though use knowledge of composition in a later state ... So my aim is to let art come from a place beyond the conscious mind. This means in practice that when I start a new painting I do not know where to go or which kind of expression is going to come out of it. I simply start to put colour on paper or whatever comes to mind.” I find this approach to be remarkable because such powerful and meaningful images can be created not from focused intent but rather develop from the artist’s intuition and connection to the unconscious mind.
-Marissa Lyttle
2 comments:
Wow... great summary of her work... looking at other work and pondering how it was done and what motivated the artist is one of the most powerful ways of jump starting our own work.
I definitely have a new appreciation for digital art. I'm accustomed to creating art through more traditional methods such as painting so now I'm really looking forward to seeing what I can do with Photoshop and other computer software.
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