After the Rain Painting

Initially, Ian Ross made a name for himself as a painter before becoming an established Fine Art Photographer. Growing up in South Africa surrounded by flowers, Ian developed an early passion for color and flowers. In order to get away from the oppressive Nationalist Governments ‘apartheid’ regime in South Africa, Ian immigrated to America with his family in 1980 and now lives and works in New York City. Ian has been influenced by artists such as Turner, Mark Rothko and Georgia O’Keeffe and has a fascination with light, color and form. Continually seeking to find a better way to show the unique qualities of flowers and form, Ian has developing his own unique style and technique of photographing botanical images. He endeavors to make the viewer more aware of the structural beauty and essence of the flower or orchid by concentrating on close ups of the subject and by the use of dramatic lighting to emphasizes it's beauty. Ian has had solo shows in New York and Cincinnati and has participated in group shows at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York, The Kennedy Space Center, Connecticut and abroad. Ian has work in the Pulitzer Collection, the NASA Collection, and the Allen Collection, as well numerous private collections, both here and abroad.