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| Frank Wafer - Artist Biography |
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Though I have been taking photographs for the last thirty years, it was only on moving to New Zealand that I found an aspect of photography that I wanted to concentrate upon and that is landscape photography, and particularly the landscape local to the Wairarapa and the Lower North Island. I do photograph other areas, on visits to them but it is the Wairarapa that I particularly like to capture.
I am particularly interested in the ways in which light, colour and the landforms combine with each other to produce finely lit images and I then concentrate on capturing these images and transferring them to canvas. To date most of the work I have sold locally has been of A3 size; however commissions are beginning to arrive for larger pieces, which give a truer and clearer vision of the space and the form of the local landscape. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is to create panoramic images of the landscapes which combine all of the aspects of colour, light, form, space and texture, and by doing this depth and layers can be drawn out of the work.
I also try to make my images as dynamic as possible by trying to lead the observer’s eye into the image at a particular point and then move it around the image in a particular way, so that there is a feeling of movement and energy within the work.
I am also trying to record the ways in which rural New Zealand, in this area, is changing as farming practices and social customs change.
All of the images taken are in RAW format originally, before being fine tuned on the computer system at home using Photoshop CS3. In some cases I am prepared to change aspects of the image to reproduce the effect I saw in the “field” but generally I like the eye and the camera to do the work and only “FINE TUNE” the images to reproduce the scene that caught my interest.
I have had no formal training and am completely self taught, however I do take inspiration from the works of painters such as both Turner and in New Zealand Grahame Sydney.
I have sold a number of works locally varying in size from A3 to 263 x 39 cm and my largest piece of work to date is 25 feet long.
About four months ago Annette Dunnage-Roy saw some of my work and after a visit to her home she encouraged me to “put myself out there”
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