VIDEO: Accidental masterpiece flares artists love for creativity
"I call it accidental because I don't even know what it is," Tasha Bagwadeen.
EMOTIVE and invoking are just two words that closely describe an emerging Bluff-based visual artist’s craft.
Many pages in history books attest to works of greatness as accidental, and Tasha Bagwadeen realised she had created hers when she completed an abstract drawing.
A self-taught artist, she started drawing as soon as she could pick up a pen. Even as a child, she knew from the onset she wanted to be was an artist.
“After I made an accidental masterpiece in Grade 8, I was even more sure that this was something I wanted to do. I call it accidental because I don’t even know what it is,” she said.
The piece was her way of shaking off a long art block bout as she was not in a good headspace.
“I wanted to do something without holding back. I still don’t know what it means, but maybe I will later,” said the 17-year-old.
She believes art can be revealing to one about themselves and through her craft, she learns new things about herself every day. “I found that the more I improve as a person, the more my art improved as well.”
Although the Grade 12 Grosvenor Girls’ High School learner does art as a subject at school, she has chosen to shy away from any professional art lessons.
“At school, we have had practice with certain techniques of shading but that’s as far as it went, other than that I’m self-taught. I’ve only watched about three tutorials on the internet my entire life, but that doesn’t work with me. I like having to figure out and do things myself.”
Her favourite subjects are art, dramatic arts, and business studies. The self-confessed introvert said even her introversion steps aside when she is on stage.
“I just become a different person up there. And as for business studies, I need to know how to run a business because I am a one-person business.”
She is currently skilled at pens, pencils, and colour pencil drawings. She also uses acrylic paint and watercolours and has just started exploring oil paint. She credits her family for their genuine support as she said it doesn’t come from a judgemental space.
“I take a lot of aspects from different artists but it is never one specific thing such as wanting to be just like them. I wouldn’t say I want to be like them, but I admire them. I want to be my own person. I admire YouTubers such as Jazza, Jaiden Animations, and the Odd Ones Out.”
And the future? “Next year I will study at Vega School and I am very excited about it. I’ve checked the place out already and I think it’ll be the right place for me. I’ve gotten indicators of how people are there, it’s a lot more mature but at the same time, it is a lot more open.”
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