Claire Stringer Violin Viola Cello Bass Art

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Musical Inspirations (RLPO). Claire Stringer. My work has been investigating ways to express time, movement, rhythm and energy. I started thinking about ways to translate music into a visual language, looking at the relationship between abstract qualities in music and art.

This new work has returned to something more physical and representational. I made observational drawings of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (RLPO) during rehearsals,

then returned to the studio to develop the images, initially via a series of studies and then in the oil paintings examples of which are illustrated here.

These paintings retain my original ideas of expressing music visually while simultaneously referencing the observational drawings and studies.

I enjoy the patterns that occur when watching the RLPO, particularly the bows, as their movements parallel the sounds and rhythms of the music being played.

The scale of co-ordination and organisation amazes me when watching the orchestra.

This is where my fascination with the language of music begins. However, I enjoy it beyond its functional level, in an abstract way, as a drawing.This interest has resulted in using music in my drawings and paintings. Please click this image for the full gallery.

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