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

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".

MO's 'Bad Painting'

Artist MO primarily paints her immediate surroundings, focusing on domestic interiors and everyday objects to communicate her feelings and emotions. Through the use of intense, discordant colours, distorted perspective and an energetic application of paint, MO seeks to convey the intensity of her moods and feelings. Gayle Drive is a typical example of MO's subject matter and style. She depicts her 1950's council house interior, the bright custard yellow walls, heavily patterned curtains and blue floorboards contrast with the often austere and bare interiors of the times. Talking about her work MO says"I am inspired by the work of the artsit Martin Maloney who practises deliberately "bad" painting where images are achieved with apparently inept draughtsmanship and crude painting ". Bad painting or not, art fusion is pleased to be working with MO.
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Following her move to England in 1990, Evelyne Glyne has been working from her home based studio as a freelance artist.

Originally from Togo, Evelyne was educated at both the Beaux-Arts Lille and École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et du Textile (ESAAT), Roubaix in France. Following her graduation she actively developed her work from drawing and textiles - towards the medium of painting. Her distinctive and accomplished work has been exhibited locally and nationally including Istanbul, Paris, Lille and London

Evelyne is currently working with artfusion on the design and content of her website which will illustrate her professional background and showcase some of her varied works.