Artists Describing Their Art:
Dennis Chamberlain - A photographer must have the ability to see and control light before it reaches the film in a way that allows an image to be produced that reflects the photgrapher's artistic vision. I have set out to use photography to create images of mother nature's beauty....
Jarmo ItÄniemi - I am artist jAPEi - You can find pictures of my art by Googling word jartD. I have pictures also in Facebook, welcome to look !! ..................................................................... The story of jAPEi started in 1989, as I was living in KIRKKONUMMI, Finland. First I painted top of flat stones. First pictures were landscapes. Later I painted and laminated pictures of landscapes, but started to pursue more...some in depths of innovations and differences in styles to perform my inner feelings and it brought me where I am today... ..................................................................... All my works compromise very v e r y much pain. - physical and emmotional. Every piece of my work shows harshness and strength ! However, I am a very HAPPY man - I have VERY BEAUTIFUL wife and large family. Thirteen children - six daughters, seven sons and three grandchildren. I am only 53 years old!!! The best time for ME is now or never ! - Both of us, my wife Hannele and I, pursue our HAPPINESS through hard work and cherish our evergrowing circle of friends ! ..................................................................... Everlasting FORTUNE and JOY to those of you who read my portfolio ! Please - feel free to contact me anytime and I will get back to you....
Christy Park - The interface between photography and the plastic arts has consistently been a driving force in my work. I begin with a photograph and work with digital collage and sometimes add paint, ink, pastel or other materials to the printed image. My current works are portraits of animals which I photographed at fairs, reworked in photogshop and printed digitally. I am particularly interested in the expressive characteristics which these animals project. ...
Mary Mansey - The Mediterranean Sea--with its streams of color, its light, its reflections--has fascinated me since I was a child. Water continues to be the main source of inspiration. Water is constantly changing and I seek to capture its many forms, before they disappear, in my photography. While nature is the starting point, abstraction is the goal. I capture the natural world only to enhance it through careful manipulation with digital imaging software. My multi-layered images begin with a single photo, which is transformed and sometimes combined with other photographs. The goal is to achieve the expressiveness of painting through the artistic treatment of the images. Even though I never use human figures, my photographs are ultimately more about people than about nature. The ripples and reflections represent ephemeral, passing moments that can be briefly perceived by the camera or human eye. ...