Chelsea
Chelsea uses materials and techniques associated with both disciplines: painting and sculpture.
Starting with unusual bases like concrete, steel or copper, she pours or dribbles paint, layers plaster or delicate gold leaf, then scrapes, cracks or corrodes her medium to get the effect she is searching for.
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As an art student, Chelsea was profoundly influenced by fieldtrips to a coalmine in Wales, to stone quarries in Portland, Dorset, and particularly to the former shipyard, Swan Hunter, in the North-East of England.
She still has a vivid memory of standing in the foundry, watching as formidable metals became malleable through intense pressure and heat.
"I can still feel the freezing cold, and recall the colour and intense heat of the furnace and the smell of molten metal" she says.
