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Artist Statement:
HAND CRAFTED MONOCHROME PRINTS
by SURENDRA
For over 25 years Surendra has
been exploring the art of
meditation, spending a good
deal of this time in India. He
feels that this has shaped his
work, helping him to look for
something essential in the
fleeting changes of the
surfaces we constantly
encounter. The other important
influence has been his
connection with Japan and his
love of simplicity in Japanese
art and craft. Primarily, he
wants only to convey the sense
of wonder, richness and beauty
in the mundane details that we
often overlook everyday .
A former associate of the
Royal Photographic Society,
Surendra has also taught
photography at junior high
school. He has exhibited his
work in Pune, India, Tokyo,
Japan and Exeter, UK.
He favours a short telephoto
lens and often works very
close to his subject. He likes
to take his time, often using
a medium and, occasionally, a
large format camera as well as
35mm. He prefers natural light
and rarely uses a flash, even
for indoor portraits or figure
studies. Usually he works
outdoors, focusing on details
of form and texture only
occasionally exploring broad
vistas.
He works only in black and
white, sometimes introducing
colour ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
'Traditional Indian
Instruments' 12 Monochrome
Prints
Osho Commune International
Koregaon Park
Poona, India
November 1998
'Natural Details'
40 Monochrome Prints
Museum of Photography
Yakushiike Park
Machida, Tokyo, Japan
February 2001
'Natural Nudes'
12 Monochrome Prints
Star Child
Exeter, Devon, UK
April 2004
'Towards Abstraction'
10 Monochrome Prints
Exeter Craft Guild...
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Artist Galleries:
Exmouth Gallery
46 Exeter Road
Exmouth
Exeter Crafts Guild
42/43 The Quay
Exeter
EX2 4AL...
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Collections:
Coming Soon!
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Reviews for Surendra Jones:
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Sometimes the sublime can be found even in the most mundane aspects of life. Take, for example, dead leaves on the ground in a park in suburban Machida, which British photographer and local resident Surendra has transformed into sublime images of visual poetry in his upcoming exhibition 'Natural Details'.
Dan Gunebaum, 'Tokyo Classified' February 16 2001
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