Paint & Pixels

An increasing number of artists are exploring integrating digital processes into their traditional work. For some it is the opportunity to see alternative views of their work or the ability to add photographic realism to their prints or paintings. But the most compelling aspect of digital imaging is that it facilitates integration of a wide range of media. Painting, drawing, collage, photography and printmaking can all be combined seamlessly using digital tools.

As a practising artist and owner of theSTUDIO it has always been my commitment to provide access to the best digital imaging products and printing processes at an affordable price. Using Mimaki and Epson Large format inkjet printers theSTUDIO can facilitate your creative exploration:

• Create unique and original works combining inkjet printing withy traditional art materials

• Create customised surfaces on which to print your artwork

• Digitally produce an underprinting for oil and canvas

• Produce stunning limited edition prints

• Print large format and explore size and scale

( images up to 60" by any length )

TOP: A faint image taken from a photograph and printed on paper.
BOTTOM: Acrylic paints have been applied over the printed image.

(The art of Digital Atelier, Bonny Lhotka, Dorothy Simpson Krause and Karin Schminke)

Artist Statement Help

Does the thought of writing about your art fill you with dread? Is it just to much effort?
Do you tremble at the thought of talking to someone about your art. Do you have a new body of work that you have yet to articulate? Or do you just want to be able to do these things better than you have in the past? Stop putting off your statement. Clear, meaningful language can help you connect with viewers and sell your work.

I want to help you talk, write, and think more clearly about your work so that you can make it meaningful to gallery dealers, curators, arts writers, and collectors, as well as to people who may not know anything about art. I want it to be more meaningful to you, too.

Give the STUDIO a call on 01865 331788 to see how I can help you develop a method of putting your thoughts together in language you can use again and again.

Now Reading: Susan Sontag

Regarding the Pain of Others is Sontag's thoughtful follow up to her 1977 classic On Photography. It's a photography book without photographs that explores how wartime images shape our perceptions of distant wars. Her descriptions of images from the Civil War to the current war with Afghanistan are evocative and direct. Some are familiar. Others less so. But all serve to raise questions about human nature, our ambivalent relationship to atrocity and the power of images to articulate the horrors of war.

Philosophical, fascinating and dense with ideas- Regarding the Pain of Others is a must read