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1. Nina Kleinzeller, Visual Artist
2. Helen Garnett, Painter
3. Clare Norris, Visual Artist
4. Robin Armstrong, Painter
Steph Maclaren, Digital Artist dreemstyletransit.com Why digital art? I switched to digital art (from more traditional mediums like painting) around 7 years ago. It allows me to create many more images than if they were hand rendered. I always have a lot of ideas buzzing around; unfortunately the time I can devote to traditional methods is limited. However I do try to utilize as much as possible, hand drawn/painted elements & textures that are scanned in to a piece. These I feel give my work some soul and help humanize the final image. How do you construct your images? I generally have a loose notion of what I am after and work from the bottom up. Blocks of colour & texture are layered down in Photoshop first, to establish the mood. Occasionally a 'happy accident' may occur where, through toying with certain parameters, I get something that is wildly different from the initial idea. Once a piece is finished I then over-paint on a lot of the elements with a tablet pen to highlight certain details. What inspires your work? I am blessed to live in a very beautiful part of the country down here in Cornwall, so the landscape and seascape plays a large role in informing my work. Music also plays an important role in inspiring me especially whilst I am working on images. How would you describe your artwork? 'Psyched out meanders across a Cornish landscape' would be a good title for a lot of my current work. These images are subtly dark and a little humorous sometimes incorporating my own photography of the Cornish landscape. What are you doing when you are not being creative? Much of my time away from being creative is spent by the coast here in Newquay. I enjoy sea fishing, surfing & skateboarding, time spent on these pursuits invariably ends up with me thinking up quirky work titles for whatever I am working on at home. I also read and get a lot of inspiration from the world of film.