Darlene Foster-Artist: featured artist

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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Featured Artist on Empty Easel

I'm so excited and pleased to be the featured artist on Empty Easel today! If you're not familiar with it, I urge you to check it out. It's a wonderful art blog with a wealth of information for artists and about artists from tutorials to marketing and more! While you're there, sign up for the newsletter to stay informed about articles coming up the next week and think about submitting your own work!

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Artist Statement

The current direction of my work is primarily photography montage (the technique of producing a new composite whole from fragments of photographs). I've always been a collector at heart, so my photography naturally evolved from concentrating on a single composition in the camera as the end product, to capturing images of anything that intrigued me for later use in a montage. Antique and vintage objects that have had previous lives are elements I collect that eventually find their way into my work. It's difficult to predict what will be a starting point for a new piece; a landscape with an unusual tree, a mysterious abandoned building, or the haunting eyes peering from a vintage portrait. Once I have a starting point, I begin to bring components together piece by piece digitally in Photoshop until I'm satisfied with the composition. From there, I experiment with multiple filters, tones, colors and textures until the final piece is as close as possible to the original idea in my mind's eye.

"The true locus of creativity is not the genetic process prior to the work but the work itself as it lives in the experience of the beholder." - Monroe Beardsley, philosopher of art