![]() By interpreting the moodsĪnd feelings of nature, her works transforms into botanical illusions which resembles Nature which is the inspiration at the core of her work. She is strongly influenced by the beauty, the chaotic order and the complexity of Each of the landscapes highlights the interplay of light, colour, shapes and shadows captured on canvas or paper, to create a new, colourful, slightly surreal, slightly dreamy version of the real is a Finnish wood artist, currently living and working in Zurich, Switzerland. I use various tools, brushes, cloth, paper, palette knives and fingers to scrape, lift and layer colour. I use thin translucent washes of colour built layer upon layer. I paint in oils because of the time it gives me to reflect, savour and pause so that I enjoy the process of painting as much as the finished work. I am greatly influenced by the landscapes of JMW Turner and Constable. My landscapes and flowers try to capture nature’s transient beauty and its fleeting magic. My goal is to inspire those who see my work, to look and observe more carefully the world around them and discover beauty in unusual places. As a landscape artist, it is light and colour that I remember most about a place, which is also my inspiration. My paintings are not a pure representation but a response to the moods and atmosphere generated by memories and experiences of landscapes, seen and felt. She exhibits her works in various galleries in India and on international online websites. She has had four solo and numerous group shows and attended national art camps. She has various commissioned works to her credit. Her work hangs in private collections in the US, Canada, Europe, the Middle-east, Hong Kong and India. She has exhibited her artwork in Delhi, NCR, Hyderabad and Chandigarh. She started exhibiting her works professionally since 2001. She is a self-taught artist and has been dabbling in painting since childhood. Nidhi in India, Nidhi Bhatia has graduate degrees in Literature and Education, followed by a diploma in Textile Designing. I see movement and flow in everything and ICM (intentional camera movement) enables me to evoke the subtle, but constant motion I find there. My intuition is captivated and somehow liberated when in the landscape. My relationship with and my interpretation of the environment provide the foundation of my photography. The gesture within the photograph reflects the ‘living’ nature of the subject and the fragility found therein. The use of long exposures and intentional camera movement is an attempt to go beyond a merely ‘scenic’ form of representation. To offer a moment to reflect and feel at one with the natural world. I aim to engage the viewer with the experience of being absorbed in and connected to nature. Moving the camera during a long exposure created images that had an ethereal quality and evoked the slowing of time, which seemed to reflect the deceleration of our lived lives at that time.Ĭonveying the emotion or feeling of being immersed in the landscape is more important to me than a literal representation. Walking in the countryside with my camera became a necessary and restorative activity. ![]() ![]() During this time, as life slowed for many, pockets of reflective time became part of the daily norm. The two groups of photographs on show – landscape and seascape – originated during the Covid pandemic which resulted in the various social/cultural restrictions of lockdown. Since leaving the film industry, it has become a full-time pursuit. My engagement with photography began as a teenager and continued throughout a long career as a film producer in London. Sally am a British landscape photographer. The paintings here depict work done on Cornwall’s Atlantic Coast, where the vast beaches, deep seas, rolling tides and immense skies enable the viewer to feel the energy and space of these beautiful scapes. This exhibition shows a small selection of my work and celebrates a lived by the sea and my deep affinity with the ocean, the Cornish Coast and its history. This enables me to keep my artwork fresh and helps me to harness the physical feeling of being part of a landscape, expressing both weather and space and the feeling of the land/sea beyond the canvas.” I generate my paintings on-site, working directly from thumbnail sketches and paintings straight onto canvas within an hour of a site visit. “I am a Cornish Painter and have a broad range of professional and teaching experience. Victoria Fine Art, PGCE (Art and Design), MA (Falmouth University) Exhibitions- A series of exhibitions over 25 years including -solo shows in St Ives, Falmouth and shows in Bath, Reading, Cardiff and Bristol.
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