Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
Room of Dreams - my 3D virtual exhibition at #naf2022 - has 57 of my nature and landscape images and I’ve just realised that seven of the images on the landscapes wall are of Hogsback. That’s by far the biggest number from any one place. All of them were taken over the past two years... Continue Reading →
My landscape and nature photography are at this year's National Arts Festival in an immersive 3D virtual exhibition hosted by oarbt.com. It has four walls of dreams and each one has a different theme: the Lockdown Sunbirds; the King Proteas; the Cloud Abstracts and the Lockdown Landscapes. The images were selected from the fine art... Continue Reading →
Earlier this month I spent a whole day at the #nationalartsfestival Power Station with @meagieswain. We were doing promotion work for our upcoming virtual exhibition Set Your Life on Fire. I’d already shown her some pictures of the location - there’s a gallery of them linked below in the Nature is Louder website - and... Continue Reading →
We’ve been planning this shoot on the beautiful hills above Featherstone Kloof for quite a while. @meagieswain told me that she has always wanted to do a tulle fabric shoot - completely wrapped in white - and I was keen to get some more images to promote our forthcoming virtual exhibition ‘Set Your Life on... Continue Reading →
This intimate exhibition previews the lockdown collaboration between myself and Cape Town based environmentalist and model Meagen Swain (meagencourtneyswain@gmail.com). We want to show that in spite of the psychological impact of the dire state of the world - highlighted during the Coronavirus epidemic - it is possible to produce art spiritually inspired by the words... Continue Reading →
I think there's a good deal of fun to be had light painting. It's like a mini performance. You have to imagine a dark scene to light up, get your camera organised, put on your darkest clothes, start the camera and then take your light into the space, weaving and turning, circling and waving. Then... Continue Reading →
Freddy's been circling in my studio ever since he swam over to me from Sally Scott's wonderful exhibition at the Johan Carinus Art School. That must be five or six years ago during South Africa's National Arts Festival! Last night he got a real break. I gave him a dust over and a new (black)... Continue Reading →
I've really found Escher's work to be inspirational and it's so nice to be able to take it into a new dimension. I re-imagined Escher's Butterflies in one of my earlier posts and now I've finished mapping the whole continent's rivers I've been able to realise a new, more complete, look for the idea. Escher's... Continue Reading →
MC Escher produced his famous Fish and Scales print in 1950 - at the same time as The Butterflies. And so, following on from my re-imagination of The Butterflies in yesterday's post, I've used the same method to produce the Fish and Scales Topographic Map of South Africa. You should be able to pick out... Continue Reading →
MC Escher's work has always amazed me with the way he transforms reality: peeling it away in layers to reveal new structures and perceptions. Lately I've begun to wonder if I couldn't use one of his prints - The Butterflies - to blend his work with how Geographers use Geographic Information Systems to portray the... Continue Reading →
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