It all starts as an adventure
There are images all around us - every day - all the time - from the micro to the macro - people, places, things - positive and negative space - colors - textures - shapes - all right in front of our eyes - we see them - we all see them differently - we need only to become aware. My passion is capturing some of these images and presenting them in a way unfamiliar to others - as I see them - as colorful movements and textures and shapes that heighten the senses and stimulate emotion. I create these images in an attempt to draw the viewer into the frame hoping they will enjoy the viewing experience as much as I did creating it.
It all starts as an adventure - either taking a day and driving around the countryside, exploring the city or digging trough my film and digital images from years gone by. An image safari is exciting to me. I look for subjects that can be enhanced out of the ordinary - changed to be displayed in my perspective.
photo by Vince McGuire
When I go on an adventure I may see a thousand images. I will explore each subject that I encounter from all directions and consider the weather, the time of day and the different lighting effects possible. These discovered images are then loaded onto my trusty computer where I edit them into images to work with and those that will wait until I make time to relive the adventure and go through the images again at a later date.
Once images have been chosen, one by one, a new round of fun begins. Each image is pulled, pushed , filtered, stretched, cropped, added to, subtracted, colored, intensified, sharpened, blurred, etc, etc, until I decide that I like what I see and am ready to make a test print. I make artist proof prints before each printing of the image. When I have determined that I like what I see in the test images I proceed to make original prints.
To me, these images look best in a 1:2, 1:3 or a 1:1 ratio and are printed on quality photographic paper or canvas to those proportions. Prints 18x9/9x18 and smaller are printed on photo paper and dry mounted. Larger images are printed on canvas. The 20x10/10x20 images are mounted on masonite to be framed, all others are stretched on custom built frames or mounted on archival boaed and mounted to a gallery wrap finish.
I then add any color I believe necessary with acrylic paint - then coat the entire image with clear acrylic, following the subject matter of the image, to produce a contoured texture. While I admit that finding the image and interpreting it are the most exciting part of the adventure, the addition of the textured surface produces a finished product that I believe is an engaging, artistic fusion of photography and the painted image.
Viewing My Images
The images viewed in these galleries are originally from photographs and as seen on a computer screen are two diminutional and flat. The images viewed in a gallery have the extra diminution of texture. This texture is painted on each print individually and follows the subject matter of the print - as such - each individual print will never look exactly the same as another of the same print and will have its own identity. This is very difficult to show and so must be accepted as an enhancement to each print that will be present on the image as it will be delivered. If you are not satisfied with the final image delivered to you, I will accept a return of the image for a period of 60 days and refund the cost of the image on an undamaged print.
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