Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
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 →
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 →
Sometimes my fantasy work just goes in all the right directions without me really knowing. In my last post I mentioned that Meagen had given me some great silhouettes to work with - she certainly did! I took her poses, masked out the background and it was then great fun to experiment overlaying the patterns... Continue Reading →
I think of the some of my photography as fantasy artwork. It's work that often dissolves a nude study into a spiritual natural scene. If you check out Symmetry Series: nude studies and new work at #NAF19 you'll see what I mean. It's no real surprise that I've wanted to do some more fantasy work during... Continue Reading →
It's hard not to be drawn to the sublime autumn colours here in Sweden. Then there's the rivers tumbling downstream full of waterfall foam and loaded with leaves. This set of pictures tries to capture the tranquillity of the waters as they twist and turn, curve and weave on their way through the forests and... Continue Reading →
Ever since I was a teenager I've admired the Impressionists and lately I've taken photographs of riverscapes that look very impressionistic. Here's an example. The rushes in the foreground are blurred in motion whilst the river, full of autumn leaves, flows smoothly around the curve behind. The sky overhead is reflected in it and the... Continue Reading →
Forests are hard to photograph. They've got all the light and shade, shapes and textures you could want - but trying to get that in a picture and capture the feel of a forest is another story. On Christmas Day last year I took a very wet and slippery walk to Hogsback's Big Tree. On the way... Continue Reading →
Today's the big day - it's when I get my large prints back from the framers. I've worked on them for a long time but only seen them on the computer screen - and they can be big: 90 cms x 90 cms. I get a glimpse when I carefully unroll them as they come... Continue Reading →
Opening up a roll of prints takes me straight back to childhood. It's the anticipation, the long wait since you finished the post production and uploaded the images to your printer in Port Elizabeth or Cape Town. Then you get the email, they're done, and you have to wait for the courier to deliver. 24... Continue Reading →
I always like to make a mosaic of the images I'm going to show. So this first picture's your overview of the 14 images that'll be up for sale at Space Creative and Culinary, 14 Fitzroy Street, Grahamstown on 28th October. They're almost all pictures of trees: Balanites, Baobab, Birch, Cabbage, Fig, Fever, Hornbeam, Oak,... Continue Reading →
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