Alice on a High: Limited Edition 4/10 Photograph

Artist Biography: A Mixed Media Artist and sometimes Freelance Stock photographer, specializing in Stock images for license to Advertising, commercial and media clients. I took up photography in the eighties, with the savings from my first real job, soon after I set up a darkroom in a garden shed at home in Knockanore County Waterford and developed my own style while teaching myself black and white printing skills.I spent a number of years living between Ireland and London England and in between different jobs, i freelanced for various companies doing commercial shoots and also working with actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company doing personal portraits. I returned to Ireland in 1997 where i took a year out to bike around Ireland taking photos of what ever scene i came across . I am now settled and married with three children in the beautiful scenic west of Ireland, in Ballybunion County Kerry. Artist Statement: My Creations are a way for me to tell a story & evoke a feeling that i hope will be encouraging & Spiritual, to make the familiar appear unfamiliar, to capture the beauty in the mundane. And that when viewed, people, even if for a small moment will loose themselves within the image. I am intrigued by the endless possibilities of virtual digital technology fused with the real world materials of paper, paint & other materials. A Self taught Photographer and artist, using the realism of Photography as the foundation & starting point of my work & then useing computer software as my paintbrush to make alterations, to exagerate & enhance, to make extreme and unusual changes. To manipulate light, tone & colour and to sometimes add layers of paint and other raw materials to give depth and feeling to my Art and to follow my Heart as there are no boundaries in my Creativity. I love to see how i can add to my origanal photograph and make a story come alive from that same image. Above all my images do not have to be understood to be enjoyed.