Artist statement: I can float just a metre or a hundred metres above the sea and it always amazes me what is revealed from above. Kelp, rocks, reef, sand, currents, sea-life and the intense colours of each element filtered through aerated, churning water. The area just beyond the wave is often the most interesting.
If I place a person amongst it all, it may make more sense, but the abstractness of it remains, often until I explain what's in the frame. I like the fact that the viewer is puzzled by it all, which way is up, why the colours and shapes are not ordered as we imagine.
Also known as Giclee prints or bubble-jet prints, pigment ink-jet prints are generated by computer printers from digital or scanned files using dye-based or pigment-based inks. A series of nozzles spray tiny droplets of ink onto the paper surface in a precise pattern that corresponds to the digital image file. In dye-based prints the ink soaks into the paper, whereas in pigment-based prints the ink rests and dries on top of the paper surface.
Whilst the term is broad, pigment ink-jet prints have come to be associated with prints produced on fine art papers. They are the most versatile and archival method of printing available to photographers today. A wide variety of material on which an image can be printed with such inks are available, including various textures and finishes such as matte photo paper, watercolour paper, cotton canvas or pre-coated canvas.
