Fine arts students visit Harwich's artists in residence

As part of the start of the new academic semester, second-year BA Fine arts students from University Centre Colchester visited the Harwich Arts and Heritage centre to meet two of the artists in residence Larain Briggs and Jamie Limond.

Larain began the workshop by revealing her own inspirations and the “cyclical nature” of her art being inspired by philosophy which then led her to create art in a different direction.

Learning - Larain Briggs (Left) with UCC students, lecturers, and Jamie Limond (back) (Image: Newsquest)

Larain explained to the students how developing art from either 2D to 3D or digital and AI to print or painting is itself sublime due to the wonder it creates through the change of medium.

Larain added: “Everything influences everything else, it’s synchronistic. It is planned, as I’ve shown you, but it is always flexible and fluid”.

Students asked questions about the symbols associated with transcendence whether that be the colour gold or animals such as birds which represent flight.

Reflective - Student Grant Bustin in Larain's Labyrinth (Image: Newsquest)

After viewing the Labyrinth – an installation representing Theseus’s heroic journey against the Minotaur representing self-discovery – students spoke to both Larain and Jamie taking part in conversations from artist to artist.

Students also took part in two-way collaborative drawing activity with Larain – a feature of the exhibition the public can also take part in.

Influence - both sides are influenced by the other helping each artist be creative (Image: Newsquest)

After the event, the fine arts students continued to Dovercourt beach to find further inspiration for their own second-year exhibitions.

Artists Larain Briggs, Jamie Limond and Dawn Hesketh-Joslin will all be in residency at the Harwich and Arts Centre throughout February.