Aquarelle

Painting using photography has started to become a minor obsession of mine recently. The idea that you can use a medium famed for its realism and create surreal painted images appeals immensely for me.

Maybe it comes from the idea of rebelling against an expected norm. Thou must use a tripod at night, thou must produce images with mainstream appeal, thou must be able to sell on stock photography websites or follow certain rules. Well why? Art hasn't followed the same processes and procedures, they haven't kept the same static rules and regulations. As much as modern art can be detestably pretentious sometimes, at least it dares to push the boat out and ask what is art? Isn't it time we did the same thing with our photographs?

Maybe its my love of night time as a magical time to be out doing photography. The colours, the sights and the sounds. Everything is transformed.

Or maybe its something as simple as this, its what I love. Water painting with light.