Urban Colour
Urban Colour
Artist’s Statement
« Everything that is solid, melts into air » (Karl Marx)
My photographs represent the familiar of everyday sights and invite us to think about the way we see and experience our environment - offering a glimpse of the world around us. Through my photography, I try to focus as well as to diffuse the spaces between the image and the object, thereby creating an ambiguity and open- endedness.
Having lived in Paris, before moving to New York, I can not ignore the influence the Masters have had on my perception of the world around me. The world of Vermeer is a world of beauty, elegance, colour and grace.
The world of Rothko is a world of feeling, elegance, colour and grace.
Both Paris and New York have had a profound effect on how I perceive the world and the way I create my photos.
The old world installed in me a sense of balanced compositions, rich colours, play of light, texture and history.
The new world supplied me with a rediscovery of a sense of reality and gave me the freedom and energy to work in a more abstract, expressionistic manner.
The main concept in my work, is the domestic versus the urban. The private versus the public.
“L’art est le plus beau des mensonges” (Claude Debussy).
“Art is the most beautiful of all lies”
