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".
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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".
