I was a girl growing up, as part of a large family, in a small town of NJ where we summered on the beaches of Long Beach Island and skied in Vermont during the winter breaks . I became inspired by my family and landscapes around me. I hated having my picture taken, I was the awkward, shy one. When I received my first camera I became the photographer I would take all of the family photos and vacation shots. I would paint it, as a girl and photograph it when I got my first camera at 12. These two elements have come together in the era of digital editing to create my style.
I am inspired by the small things in life where light, scale and composition happen. My work is dreamlike yet specific, my photography marries my painterly aesthetic with the soft view of memory. It may begin at a life guard race or a storm coming in over the horizon that grabs me. Through the development of Photoshop and Lightroom I create my work through different treatments and actions I have developed to create visual artistry. I approach my work as a painter that has the untraditional elements to create on my computer.
As you go through my work some will have my painterly elements others will be unedited photographs that have something I needed to capture, pure.
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. Ansel Adams
Black Box Gallery A juried group photo show on street + night + architecture at Black Box Gallery. Published Book July 2024
Armonk Outdoor Art Show 3rd place photography 2023
Mary O. Fritchie Juried Fine Arts Show 1st place award photography 2023
Mary O. Fritchie Juried Fine Arts & Crafts Show Award 2022
Group Exhibit: Dabster Arts, Inc. Art in the Time of Corona, Volume 2 Online Exhibit/Publication 2023
Group Exhibit: Dabster Arts, Inc. Art in the Time of Corona, Volume 3 Online Exhibit/Publication 2023
Group Exhibit: Exhibizone. True Beauty 3/20- 4/21/2023
Group Exhibit: 54th Annual Laurel Art Guild Open Juried Exhibition: 5/7 -6/7/2023
LBIF: Long Beach Island Arts Foundation group exhibit established recognized artists on LBI 7/13/2024
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