Digital on paper
Signed and numbered with a certificate of authenticity.
A composite image made up of various photographs taken by myself to create a new uncluttered slightly surreal landscape, generally somewhere you wouldn't expect to find it, an ‘un-scene’ if you like. Elements are selected for similar lighting, street furniture and clutter removed in Photoshop, and toned to blend in with their new environments. Most images belong to a 3 part themed series, have a white border and include a certificate which tells the story and inspiration behind each image.
Each print has a digital signature bottom corner of the image.
The Cockatoo Series: Galahs (pink and grey), black, and white cockatoos, are plentiful in the Australian urban and outback environments. Often perched on a powerline or crowding single trees.
I have teamed these with some abandoned buildings of the outback town of Silverton New South Wales as their resting places.
The skies were photographed from an approaching storm over the mountain ranges west of my home town Redlynch, Cairns which is also populated with black and white cockatoos.
On a Hot Tin Roof
Since Galahs are Australian icons this image needed an Australian sounding name. Two are resting on the roof of this old house, possibly discussing the impending storm, others getting ready to start a meeting!
The birds were captured in Silverton, NSW, in situ on this tree outside a café.
The foreground landscape is from just outside Broken Hill.