Hayley Ditchburn

Email: hditchburn@aol.co.uk

website: www.hayleyditchburn.com

Statement

Hayley has always been attracted to the medium of paint. She likes the physical aspect of building the image: choosing the right colours, mixing the paint and applying it to the canvas. In this sense the process is important to her with focus on underpainting, layering and creating texture. Watching something simple and nondescript develop into the final image is immensely pleasurable. 
Hayley likes the human aspect of painting people. No two people are the same and this is mirrored in her paintings and their imperfect surfaces; it seems like a two-way commentary about human nature. Hayley paints nudes as she feels it adds another dimension to the figure and allows me to explore the idea of sexuality openly. 
To Hayley, the subject of sexuality is both timeless and modern. Female sexuality is a wide subject and her paintings attempt to approach it by exploring the ways each gender views female sexuality. We live in a culture where we’re bombarded by sexual images in the media daily; sometimes to sell us something, sometimes to titillate. Hayley explores the idea of voyeurism with reference to the big brother phenomenon. However, the voyeuristic aspect of the work also confirms their sensuality.
The images Hayley creates are very personal, her ideas are undoubtedly shaped by her life and experiences, this is why Hayley chooses to use myself as a model. As a young woman in modern society her views on sexuality and femininity contrast greatly with those of older generations, and with a male perspective: as a by-product, her paintings sometimes appear to provoke debate. 

Education

BA Fine Art (hons) Falmouth University 2009

Exhibition History

• June 2009  Degree Show at University College
  
• March- April 2008  Paint and Pixels Exhibition at Here and Now Gallery, Falmouth
• February 2008  2nd Year Fine Art Exhibition at The Poly, Falmouth
  
• 2006-9  Fine Art BA Hons Degree at University College Falmouth
• June 2006  Foundation Diploma Show, The Arts Institute, Bournemouth
  
• 2005-6  Art and Design Foundation Diploma at The Arts Institute, Bournemouth
  
• Falmouth2003  Drawing exhibited at the Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham
  
  

Work in residence at the Prince of Wales Pub, Falmouth.