Artwork of the Month showcases a selection of the best work from the John Lyon Art Department each month, with a work from each of Years 7, 8 & 9, Years 10 & 11, and Sixth Form.
Artwork of the Month: March 2021
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Rayyan Hasan, Year 8 | Mixed media
Rohan Card, Year 11 | Glazed pottery
Tyler Ho, Upper Sixth | Oil painting
Artwork of the Month: November 2020
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Finn Hardy, Year 9 | Pencil drawing
Yasseen Hassan, Lower Sixth | Oil painting
Artwork of the Month: October 2020
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Evan Lin, Year 9 | Drawing
Muhammed Bachelani, Year 11 | Photograph
Odin Verden, Lower Sixth | Watercolour painting
Artwork of the Month: September 2020
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George Allen, Year 9 | Drawing
Aran Notta, Year 11 | Drawing
Yasseen Hassan, Lower Sixth | Oil painting
Artwork of the Month: February 2020
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Harjeevan Bains, Year 7 | Harjeevan saw Lower Sixth students working on their illuminated letters during Art Club and asked Mr Brown if he could make one too. Mr Brown then helped Harjeevan create this wonderful painted illuminated letter as a gift for his sister. Great to see the boys in lower years inspired by boys further up the school in our art clubs.
Yasseen Hassan, Year 11 | The two biro drawings by Yasseen were created after a visit he made to the British Museum. His studies are beautiful detailed observational works exploring people within the interior spaces. Yasseen has the ability to capture incredible detail in this beautiful, sensitively drawn studies which represent part of his GCSE research.
Adam George, Lower Sixth | This digital print was created by Adam who is exploring the beauty within nature and using digital techniques to juxtapose people and plants reflecting natural and unnatural beauty.
Artwork of the Month: January 2020
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Danyal Khaja, Year 9 | Danyal has created this surreal collage using digital media as part of his portrait project in Art. He has combined a series of images to create an interesting and believable sense of space within a surreal landscape.
Kai Waldron, Year 11 | Kai has created this biro study and collage as part of his GCSE controlled test research and exploration of media. In this self-portrait he has captured a sense of character and energy, the collaged hat helping to add depth to the piece.
Dhanesh Jegatheesan, Upper Sixth | Dhanesh has created these two representational oil on board paintings as part of his independent study for A-Level Art. He is exploring how people can use art to communicate issues related to mental health. The subjects of the images are are Teacher of Art Miss Courtney Burley and Art Technician Mr Nick Brown.
Artwork of the Month: December 2019
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Mehmet Yalcin, Year 9 | In this self-portrait Mehmet has used charcoal and a putty rubber to create his study. He is exploring how to use tone to create form, starting with a mid-tone ground he has used the putty rubber to create highlights and charcoal to develop depth of tone.
David Self, Year 11 | David has created this silk screen as a development for his GCSE coursework, completing this print in his mock exam. He created it through use of Photoshop to merge his images to create a digital collage which was transferred to a silk screen and printed to create this water-based scene.
Maazin Fazil, Upper Sixth | Maazin has created these two beautiful studies as part of his A-Level coursework. He is exploring how delicate life is for animals due to environmental issues and poachers, his armadillo representing the protection animals are built with but how it cannot work in the world today as the global environment changes. This supports an exciting body of work to be presented as his A-Level personal investigation.
Artwork of the Month: November 2019
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George Allen, Year 8 | George has created this study of a dog on dictionary paper in preparation for a piece to be made in clay. The work is to be an animal head on a human body, with the animal reflecting the boy’s character and the body his chosen career.
Roman Filippov, Year 11 | Roman has created this amazing study based on the work of Morandi. It is an incredibly detailed and beautiful observation using biro.
Adam George, Lower Sixth | A digital work based on the juxtaposition of image. Adam has combined two images which he has digitally manipulated to create this powerful work. The image of a clown with a fairground cutting through the face is inspired by a recent Sixth Form Art visit to Margate.
Artwork of the Month: October 2019
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Finn Hardy, Year 8 | Studying how artists have explored animals through art, Finn has really focused on colour in this image of a kingfisher
George Allen, Year 8 | like Finn, George has been looking at animals in art. Here he has demonstrated excellent observational skills and a wonderful use of mark making.
David Self, Year 11 | David has been attending Art Club and working with Mr Brown to develop his oil painting skills. This is wonderful observational study captures the detailed tones seen in the Rhinoceros.
Maazin Fazil, Lower Sixth | Maazin produced this digital painting using Photoshop.
Artwork of the Month: June 2019
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Bartosz Slupikowski, Year 7 | Bartosz has excelled within our Botanical Art and Printmaking project, producing an intricate and detailed tonal study of an artichoke using biro. Bartosz’s study depicts the skills learnt in class, using mark making techniques such as hatching and cross hatching to create a depth of skillfully blended tone.
Fritz Storp, Year 10 | Fritz has created this self-portrait using many photo transfers collaged onto linen, which he has then embroidered onto using a variety of alternative thickness threads. This amazing work has been selected by the Royal Academy for their young person’s summer exhibition and will be on display within the gallery this summer. This piece represents his final piece for his Portraiture and Identity personal response: a wonderful imaginative and creative piece.
Artwork of the Month: May 2019
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Bartosz Slupikowski, Year 7 | Bartosz has created this copy of Picasso’s famous Weeping Woman as part of the Portraiture and Abstraction project. He has managed to master the proportions of this tricky abstract piece alongside using coloured pencils confidently to depict the vibrant range of tones.
Yuvraj Dhunna, Year 11 | Yuvraj has been an extremely creative and productive artist throughout his GCSE, and especially driven since discovering the work of Bob Ross. This painting is a homage to Ross and reflects a concern we face in the world as we destroy nature leaving animals without their natural environment. The landscape was painted from his imagination with pace and energy and the tiger was painted separately on a piece of wood, in a hyper-realism style in contrast with the energetic freedom of the landscape. A wonderful painting.
Maazin Fazil, Lower Sixth | Maazin produced this digital painting as a final piece for his exam. It reflects his love of Kenya and memories of his younger life within a self-portrait of him now. Maazin is able to use digital media to create this life like study with immense detail and a wonderful likeness. An imaginative and reflective portrait.
Artwork of the Month: April 2019
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George Allen, Year 7 | George has created this portrait inspired by the work of Adam Neate, a British conceptual artist, as part of his exploration into the world of abstraction. He has been bold and confident in his use of colour in creating this wonderful piece based on Neate’s portraiture work.
Paul Olalekan, Year 10 | Paul has created this hand-coloured etching as the final outcome for his Portraiture and Identity piece. The work is based on a self portrait emerged in water, floating or sinking within the space. He has used the inks expressively to create a sense of mood and sensitivity within the composition.
Dhanesh Jegatheesan, Lower Sixth | Dhanesh has created this oil painting based on a skull and inspired by the artwork of John Lyon Art Technician Mr Nick Brown. He is exploring the role of identity, the self and our mortality in preparation for his school exams.
March 2019
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Pranay Mangat, Year 9 | Pranay has worked in Mr Brown’s Portraiture Club to create this amazing oil painting. Working alongside boys from Years 10, 11 and the Sixth Form, he has developed his technical skills and understanding of form. This is a wonderful self-portrait and a fantastic achievement for a Year 9 pupil.
Marco Afnan, Year 10 | Marco and Sebastian (below) have both created fantastic self-portraits using etching, inspired by the work of Lucian Freud. They have explored mark making to create these sensitive and realistic pieces which capture a real likeness to both boys.
Sebastian Tsang, Year 10 | Sebastian and Marco (above) have both created fantastic self-portraits using etching, inspired by the work of Lucian Freud. They have explored mark making to create these sensitive and realistic pieces which capture a real likeness to both boys.
Usmaan Khan, Upper Sixth | Usmaan has created this series of photographs as part of his A-Level coursework. Exploring class, celebrity and wealth in our society, he worked with homeless people in London and through meeting them and getting to know them he was able to create these intimate portraits.
February 2019
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Vamsi Kothapalli, Year 7 | Vamsi created this wonderful pop-up book as part of his STEAM lesson, exploring paper engineering. He has researched a variety of techniques which have been applied with great precision in this work.
Ben Massey, Year 11 | Ben has created this wonderfully expressive etching based on a series of self portraits. He has created a lively and expressive portrait which captures the energy of youth.
Dhanesh Jegatheesan, Lower Sixth | Dhanesh completed this amazing oil painting at Mr Nick Brown’s portraiture club. He has developed his observational skills incredibly and has really captured not just the physical form of Fritz but an essence of his character.
January 2019
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George Allen, Year 7 | A study using oil pastels based on the paintings of still life by Paul Cézanne
Yasseen Hassan, Year 10 | A drawn observational study of Michelangelo hands to develop observational skills
Zak Samak, Upper Sixth | Inspired by Hermann Rorschach’s Ink Blot Tests, this piece explores symmetry, repetition and the ways in which an individual reacts to an image
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