XPI Student Showcase
Welcome to Xpress Plugged In, our new online gallery of student expressions. Please follow the submission instructions CAREFULLY. New work will be posted every Monday.
-- Nancy Green, editor of XPI
Selections for the Week of 7/04/2011
Spotlight on Nora Bourke, 12th grade
St. Petersburg Catholic High School
Nora on Nora ...
My name is Nora Bourke. I am currently a senior at St. Petersburg Catholic High School. When I'm not making art pieces, I'm dancing as a proud member of the Baronettes Dance Team or performing as a member of the International Thespian Honor Society. I am also an active member of the Spanish Honor Society and the National Fine Art Honor Society.
My passion for art pretty much stems from once being a creative little kid. I have always loved to create my own stories, my own solutions and enjoy exploring different techniques through painting, drawing, and photography. The thing I like most about art is showing things and ideas in a new light, making the invisible visible, telling that story. No matter what I do in the future, I know that I love art way too much to ever let it go.
Original art by Nora Bourke, 12th grade,
St. Petersburg Catholic High School
Depth of a Man, chalk pastel & charcoal
The Geometry of an Apple, mixed media
Self Portrait #1, mixed media
Swirling Tide, acrylic on canvas
Shadow in Stories of Cities, chalk pastel & marker on canvas paper
Abyss of Salvation, chalk pastel & charcoal pencil
Story of a Mushroom, charcoal
Development of Hands, mixed media
Hold Me Closer Tiny Dancer, mixed media
Woman and the Way She Is, marker & charcoal on paper
Lugar de mi Madre (Place of my Mother), acrylic on canvas