| Apple Macintosh computer and the sheer power of today’s graphic art workstations, but the ideas behind the works are timeless.
The closest ‘label’ to my early work could be photo-montage, but even then it goes beyond this old media definition. The technical exactness, the pixel-by-pixel painting, the physically large scale and resolution of the images and the degree of detail all go to create images that push the envelope both technically and visually.
Photography as Art
Despite the exciting vision and skill apparent in the work of many photographers, the “reality” of the image and its perceived easy reproducibility has meant that photography as an investment has lapsed behind artworks of a more one-off nature, such as paintings, sculpture and even montage.
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Photography also has a rich history and context on which the viewer can draw. Narrative elements and the validity of an image are often pigeon-holed or positioned relative to that history. This can be a hindrance to the artist who attempts to extend the narrative beyond the photographic image in front of them.
From this has grown a movement to create surreal imagery by photographic means, in the form of multiple exposures, chemical reactions and even distressing or partial destruction of the printed image. I have taken a different route.
Growing beyond Photography
The “real/unreal” nature of my work allows the “real” boundary to be more clearly defined, but hopefully interpretation is still open to the viewer. Surreal elements are explored, but the work is not a slave to this. Surreal mixes with abstraction. Geometrics merge with Surreal.
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