Fruit

I am currently studying fruit as an independent project on ‘Scale’. Using a macro lens, I have been painting magnified images of fruit, taking inspiration from artists Angela Faustina and Pavels Sagalajevs. I have also been researching the issue of single-use plastic in the fruit industry and experimenting with different ideas, such as painting on plastic packaging. To conclude my work on this, I made a wooden frame covered in plastic netting to frame an oil painting of a blood orange. I wanted to achieve a beautiful juxtaposition between the plastic waste and the painting of the fruit and provoke the question of whether this type of plastic packaging is necessary in the fruit industry.