What is this about?

Elizabeth and I make a living with our cameras primarily shooting weddings and portraits.  We love this type of work and are thrilled to be chosen to spend this important day with our customers.  We are also always striving to improve our work, skills and define our style.  To that end we have undertaken a number of  personal projects over the years to photograph people. places and things we encounter.

It has allowed us to build an interesting portfolio of images that we are sharing here.  The work here is diverse and incorporates a number of interesting techniques and tools, such as Corel Painter and the iphone camera. We hope you enjoy this peek into our creative process and we would love to hear your feedback on the work.

Frank and Elizabeth

Frank’s Artist Statement

I have been drawing, painting and photographing things my entire life. Always a skilled illustrator, in college I studied with Herb Jackson who introduced me to action painting and abstract imagery. That exposure was instrumental in changing my thinking about imagery from the purely literal to a more conceptual approach. It has informed my artistic vision ever since. As life moved forward I switched my artistic endeavors almost entirely to photography until several years ago when I discovered Corel Painter and began to experiment with digital painting. The images presented in the digital Painting Gallery are the product of that work. I have been working as a professional photographer for nearly twenty years and have enjoyed rediscovering painting and drawing combining the latest digital tools with analog techniques. I produce limited edition prints of my digital work that are limited to 50 and are printed on traditional papers, canvas or handmade papers whichever provide the texture and quality that best represents the images.

Recent Exhibitions and Awards

April 2012 – Paladium print image selected for the Rebirth Workshop Gallery Show at The Warehouse Gallery, Cleveland MS

February 2012 – Three images selected for display and sale at Bull City Forward

December 2011 – Selected for the Juried Rock and Shop Market in Durham

October 2011 -  Silent auction images raised $140 for the Peru Project

August 10th – Five images selected for Still Point Gallery show – Destinations: Famous Places, Intimate Spaces

June 1st – Named Finalist in the Only Originals International Art Competition

June 1st – Three images selected for Still Point Gallery show – We can’t get enough of nature

May 1st – Added to the artists collective at the labourlove gallery in Durham, NC.

March 31 2011 – Image selected for the OCCCA Show PIXELS@OCCCA an exhibition of iPhone photography and inclusion in the book PIXELS@OCCCA

December 2010 – Images elected for the Still Point Art Gallery show Rythmic Sensation – Visual Sensation

November 2010 – Image included in the Still Point Gallery book Selections from 2010 Exhibitions

October 2010 – Image included in the Photos For The Gulf book project. All proceeds will be donated to Gulf Relief Organizations.

October 2010 – Named Artist of Distinction by Still Point Art Gallery. Three paintings of the New Orleans Busker Band – Skinny Tuba.

August 2010 – Color Show at The Warehouse Gallery, Cleveland MS. Two images accepted, “Fog over the Quarang, Isle of Skye” and “Hurricane Ridge Olympic Peninsula”

November 2009 – Contrast Show at A Gallery for Fine Art Photography in New Orleans.