The Art of Fatu Feu'u

In art this term we have been studying the New Zealand artist Fatu Feu'u. Originally from Samoa his work reflects his Samoan heritage and the thing he treasures from his culture. He also makes use of the painting technique sgraffito. We used his work 'Conserve for Tomorrow' as a starting point for our paintings and thought about the things that we valued in our own culture and environment which we would like to see preserved. We planned four symbols which we transferred to our canvas and painted. We then explored how we could add depth and texture to the paintings using the sgraffito technique.