DiDA: D201 Using ICT

by Janet Snell

Giving all the knowledge needed; combined with essential assessment style techniques. These full colour books fully prepare students for the new summative projects and e-portfolio assessment styles with complete coverage of the new specifications. Students can purchase either a certificate or a diploma book which offer all the units needed at exactly the right level for them. Exactly matches the new specification with comprehensive coverage for either the certificate or the diploma to give students everything they need for this qualification. Written in a clear and accessible style by a strong author team with student needs in mind. Focuses on the new summative project assessment style and the e-portfolio, to aid tutors with their teaching and to help students to pass.

160 pages, Paperback

Published September 16, 2005

About the author

Soon after I graduated from MICA, my work began to involve the depiction of the psychology of the human head and figure. The relationship of mind to body interests me greatly. I use it to deconstruct the world we live in, our fears, our isolation and loneliness, our urge to connect, our collective melancholia. My drawings and paintings also address the man-woman thing, the fragility of family dynamics, societal and psychological violence. These themes are often expressed with metaphors found in dreamscapes, and in the case of my portraits, with color. I use color freely to express the subject’s personality---i.e. yellow for intelligence, violet for moodiness---while the facial features remain realistic. This work is semi-realistic & semi-expressionistic, and thereby connected to my other work.

I think in images. I can get an image in my head while listening to Tom Waits or Jimi Hendrix, for instance, or from reading a favorite author like Genet. I do a thumbnail sketch of the image and think about its metaphysics, the nature of its reality. Solving the problem of finding the right space for the figure is the next step; that’s where process comes in. The touch of the brush leads me, in an intuitive way, to develop the space, which is abstract expressionist. The images themselves mark me as a neo-German expressionist. Image and space are the two elements that focus the relationship between the figurative and the abstract, and provide meaning. Together, they help the viewer experience the complexities of the human subject.