Light Montages

Ken Williams motages look the way they 
do because he creates the illusion of light in places not normally seen. For his current body of work Ken has worked with a series of coastal photographs depicting the entrance to dark unlit caves. “I wanted to create images 
unreal to the way we are accustomed to seeing them” says Ken. “Without light, virtually nothing 
exists, at least to the camera. This complete darkness is my canvas”. Ken digitally prints multiples of the same image on fine art papers and other substrates. Some are manipulated using photo editing software then a selection are sandwiched together beneath layers of transparency film.

The creation of a visual sound

Initially inspired by David Hockney’s Polaroid collages, artist Marie Beake started to experiment with digital photography as an extension of her study of hands and movement. Working with a single image, a hand on the fingerboard of a violin, she chanced printing the image on the reverse side of transparency film, a process she has likened to ‘hinterglasmalerei’ (reverse glass painting) with its effects of transparency, brilliance and moiré. Like hinterglasmaleri the colours resembled a thick coat of varnish. Marie visited the Artfusion studio to recreate the process on a large scale. As the ink runs Marie says" the image abstracts and provides a new interpretation - the creation of a visual sound".