A friend wanted to produce some mixed media pages about her experience of living as an immigrant in the UK over the past few years.
We discussed colour, themes, and what she wanted to convey.
The pieces are to be used as part of a presentation of an academic paper on a slide show loop. We felt that it was important to use a colour theme- we chose a turquoise back ground and spread acrylic paint onto cartridge paper with credit cards.
We did some research on google looking at fear. And found a few images to look at as a starting point. 
http://www.paintedpath.org/2011/02/on-being-vulnerable.html?m=1
We found a load of other images but these were two that seemed to talk to my friend the most – built up layers of paint , found images and newspaper collage
We fancied a bit more layering so added baking sheet
We made a copy on my printer – the paper was too big to be copied whole, but we decided we liked the image cropped very much – it conveys the feeling of being trapped much more effectively
The second piece felt much more easier to do.
We added ripped bits of paper onto the back ground and then swirled acrylic paint in a loose circle on top. The figure is a found image from a magazine. We wrote words that my friend wanted on news paper and then added torn red pieces and swirled on top of everything with gelatoes 
I have been feeling a lot of pent up anxiety and emotion about Brexit and Trump recently and this was very releasing – even though it wasn’t my emotions being targeted- using art in this way always amazes me.
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