Mycreativeimages - March 2020

My Creative Images

Promoting Digital Photo Artistry and Digital Photography

Magazine cover artwork by James Hurley - www.jameshurley.art

“The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.” ~ Rene Magritte

As with most journeys the are many changes of direction and focus as to the reason to create art. I find myself switching between the pure excitement of creating bold brash images from dull bland photographs to creating dark understand artwork to help clear my mind of confusing emotional states. This is very apparent when you see the switch in style of my self portrait series, the initial work is shown on the opposite page and more recent images are shown on pages 53-56.

The creative mind is a wonderful and exciting thing and all the artwork in this months magazine comes from deep inside each of the artists minds, hearts and souls.

As a reminder, the sole purpose of this magazine is to showcase photo digital artwork from emerging and established artists from the UK and Europe. Artists can showcase their work in the magazine at no cost and have a link one of their social media pages, blogs or websites. So if you enjoy what you see here reach out to the artist and share the links to this magazine far and wide so more people can enjoy it!

Self portrait artwork by James Hurley - www.jameshurley.art

Featured Artist

James is a photo digital artist that captures landscapes photographs as well as painterly portraits either in the comfort of his home or on location.

He is based in Huntingdon, near Cambridge, and has a passion for incorporating his emotions and frustrations into surreal artwork.

James is a self-taught photographer who has learnt Photoshop by taking a number of online course hosted by Sebastian Michaels.

His current focus is to further explore and enhance his photography skills and further develop his own photo digital artistic style which can incorporate lots of colour and textures employing a Chiaro-oscuro style but also a darker monochromatic approach, as with his self portrait series of images shown on the following pages. The aim is to produce artwork and photographs that lean more towards a painterly or surreal feel than a realistic photograph.

During Feb and March two pieces of James work received Special Recognition awards from the Light, Space & Time gallery one of which was featured in this magazine last month.

If you are looking for a portrait photograph or want a photograph of you blended into a scene / artwork or just want some unique artwork to decorate your home or give as a gift, get in contact with James, who would be happy to work with you and create something special just for you.

James Hurley