Ann Rodriguez | Huntersville, North Carolina USA
I am a self-representing artist based in Huntersville, NC. My medium is all digital. I describe my style as the incorporation of photo-realistic elements into an impressionistic setting. I love digital photography, working with Photoshop and PAINTING!
I enjoy taking elements that are real, and applying time and emotion around them in a surreal or implied way. My inspiration comes from many things – but in particular the beautiful sky-scapes that are an everyday occurrence in North Carolina.
Since the early 1980s, photography has been my primary artistic medium. My early application of photojournalism techniques evolved to fine art photography over time and along the way, a great passion for the shot itself extended to passion for the technical aspects that occur in the darkroom. In the last few years, my creative evolution has followed a natural path into the digital darkroom and to actual digital creation.
My current work is about combining photorealistic elements with impressionistic or surreal settings via a digital paint palette. ‘Sky-scapes’ tend to be a pre-dominant influence for me right now. I spend a lot of time regarding the skies and drawing their patterns, their energy, and many of the colorful cadences that are found there. The simple swirls that are evident in both the Whimsy and Dreaming Series, provide a way to capture and convey the time, space, and emotion of a moment that is sometimes metaphorical – as in Dreaming Storm, as a young girl is an onlooker to a coming storm – depicting the turbulence and longing of youth on the pinnacle of adulthood.
