Soraya Schofield

Soraya Schofeild
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Emotion // Colour // Form

Soraya Schofield is a photographic based artist, and gallery owner. The house and surrounding gardens and woods in which she spent her childhood, has, for the last six years has been her main source of inspiration. Beginning with I looked back and you were gone, a project that played with the concept of the natural surroundings of her childhood home reclaiming the man made structure. Here she overlaid photographic images with one another to produce surreal imagery touched with mementos of her parents and childhood. In her most recent work Schofield has photographed the woodland extensively in an attempt to capture a secret world in which she sees metaphors for everyday life experiences. As the ideas developed Schofield realised that the translation of the metaphors she sees through photography, could be difficult for the viewer as they are so personal to her eye and experience. She began to paint over the photographs with acrylic and found the abstract forms and play with colour engaging. Exploring the found forms with both lithography and screen-print, at times overlaying both processes together, she experiments with abstract shapes creating a jigsaw of form and colour which flow next to one another. Photo transfer techniques which breakdown the original photographic image are overlaid in some of the work, by re-printing the transfer as a duo-tone Litho print it adds to textual quality back into picture, alluding to it’s origin and a sentiment of dreams or memory, two themes which recur throughout Schofield’s practice. In these pictures the viewer will read the imagery from their own experiences and viewpoint as opposed to that of the artist.