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St Edward鈥檚 Catholic Primary School, Years 4鈥6
Watercolour, pencil, wax crayon and acrylic on canvas board
Children from Years 4, 5 and 6 visited the Courtauld Gallery to look closely at Vincent van Gogh鈥檚 Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear. Back at school, we studied the work of the contemporary artist Rachel Jones to find our own moment of artistic inspiration.
We thought about the use of colour and mark-making and experimented with different materials and techniques to understand how we might create our own 鈥榮ense of self鈥 through our artwork.
Inspired by Rachel Jones鈥檚 interest in teeth and mouths, we looked at our own mouth and simplified it to make it look, as Jones describes it, 鈥渂eautiful, mysterious and complicated鈥.