Petals Photograph

John Ironside A professional Digital Artist, based in Wexford, John Ironside opened his first studio in 1976, creating imagery for commercial and industrial use. He has continued this work from then right up to the present day. Self taught, he has worked with black and white, colour negative and colour positive film, using small, medium and large format camera equipment. John is renowned (well known?) for his portrait work as well as his extensive portfolio of nature and landscape imagery. His work has been published extensively in print media, TV and in exhibitions here in Ireland as well as London and Paris. John’s work has recently taken an exciting new and more abstract direction. He has begun to exhibit publicly, for the first time, his passion for a more abstract, highly textured and vividly coloured, type of digital art, which gives him greater freedom to explore the many varied colours, patterns and textures of the natural world. Born in the beautiful Caribbean island of Trinidad, John grew up surrounded by raw unspoilt nature, the tropical jungle and the abundant wildlife, all of which has remained a constant influence on him and his work. His later life in Ireland brought an appreciation of a more subtle, mellow, dappled landscape, further enhancing his love of his natural surroundings and creating a new source of inspiration and creative expression. Many years of travel around the world, from the Amazon River to the jungles of Southern Mexico, from the beautiful islands of the Caribbean to North and South America, Canada, Africa and all over Europe have all added to John’s intense feeling for colour and atmosphere, so obvious in his work. John Ironside’s work can be found in many public and private collections both at home and overseas. “I enjoy pushing the boundaries of digital photography and the after process creating art pieces that depict the colours and textures derived directly from nature itself, utilising the technology we have at our disposal in this day and age to produce unique, original art works.” Through digital photography, I create micro visual experiences of the beauty within nature, mostly overlooked by the unperceptive eye, through my creative vision. My art works are printed on museum quality, fine art archival papers using pigment inks.