SaveAN OCEAN COVE DAWN
| Year of creation | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 76.2 W × 55.9 H × 0.5 D cm |
| Type of art | photography |
| Style | modern |
| Genre | photo-impressionism |
| Type of packaging | art tube |
Description of the Artwork “AN OCEAN COVE DAWN”
This artwork by Michael Lawrence transforms an ocean cove dawn into an image that blurs the line between photography and painting. Utilising a combination of raster graphics software and traditional pen or brush techniques, the artist crafts a scene that captures the tranquility of a sea view in North Cornwall. Size 30 × 22 cm, this 'Photo-Graphic' work embodies a quiet mélange of sky, sea, and the first light of sunrise. Artist’s Note. ‘Photo-Graphic’ is a term I have coined for a kind of image that starts out as a straight photograph but is then subjected to alterations that involve pen or brush work, and/or the use of raster graphics software.
Artwork in the interior
Michael Lawrence, United Kingdom
I initially trained as a graphic designer in a London studio, and from there morphed into a photographer, working for national newspapers, advertising agencies and publishers, photographing politicians, pop stars and fashion models (and many other things and people besides). I also spent some time working as an experimental photographic printer and silkscreen printer, and along the way set about exploring ways of fusing various things that I had learnt, taking photographs in a rather unorthodox way, with specially-adapted lenses, which I then further distorted or remodelled, calling the end results of such manipulation ‘Photo-Graphics’. I am constantly experimenting, never knowing at the start of any given day what I will have come up with by the end of it. That makes life quite exciting. I’ll be offering some of my images as limited-edition prints here on Jose Art Gallery. Most of them have never been seen before, anywhere.