Poetic

I developed my artistic style starting with a strong focus on creating landscape images. These images ranged from maritime to urban to industrial views. After moving into my own studio, I moved away from landscape images to feature botanical studies. By working in the controlled studio environment has allowed me to utilize my life experiences to input heart and soul into each image by experimenting with composition and lighting. Initially, the oyster mushroom captured my imagination and I have since added other wild varieties as subject material. My creative vision uses their bizarre and varied shape, alien textures, and intricate detail combined with composition and lighting to present crisp images with a dose of abstraction. Abstraction makes them unique and opens them to multiple interpretations depending on the viewer’s imagination to use their personal memories and life experiences to build content. I have taken a minimalist presentation against a square black background not to distract from the images powerful poetic voice. While it has been said that my mushroom images are reminiscent of Edward Weston's "Bell Pepper" series. I continue to develop my own artistic approach with subjects selected based on what speaks to me emotionally. While the artistic style has evolved to echo that of the Group f/64, I continue to experiment with different approaches, presenting new and innovative artwork.