TITLE: Poetic
I developed my artistic style starting with a strong focus on creating landscape images ranging from maritime to urban to industrial views. After moving into my own studio, I moved away from landscape images to feature botanical studies.
By working in the controlled studio environment has allowed me to utilize my life experiences to input heart and soul into each image by experimenting with composition and lighting. Initially, the oyster mushroom captured my imagination and I have since added other wild varieties as subject material. My creative vision uses their bizarre and varied shape, alien textures, and intricate detail combined with composition and lighting to present crisp images with a dose of abstraction. Abstraction makes them unique and opens them to multiple interpretations depending on the viewer’s imagination to use their personal memories and life experiences to build content. I have taken a minimalist presentation against a square black background not to distract from the images powerful poetic voice.
While it has been said that my mushroom images are reminiscent of Edward Weston's "Bell Pepper" series and my artistic style echoes that of the Group f/64, I continue to develop my own artistic approach with subjects selected based on what speaks to me emotionally and to experiment with different approaches to present new and innovative artwork.
AUTHOR: Dale M Reid (Canada)
Contemporary fine art photographer Dale M Reid took charge of her destiny by making a commitment to herself and her life partner and soulmate.
Reid's belief in herself has allowed her to chart a new course in life as a full-time professional artist and transgender woman. As Dale transitioned through her new life journey, she developed technical skills, questioned convention, trusted her instincts, and with her passion, was able to craft a distinctive artistic voice. Her artwork ranges from classical to sensual to erotic and engages the viewer to question what they see.
Owning who we are, respecting and trusting our character, and engaging people has allowed Dale to be accepted as a respected woman and professional artist.
In this digitalized world of pop art photography, Dale's unique traditional monochromatic images contain elements of being a painting or graphite. The lack of color allows the viewer to focus on the variety of textures and the richness of interesting lines and shapes that engage in an elegant, visual synthesis in each photograph.
Reid developed her artistic style with a strong focus on creating landscape images ranging from maritime to urban to industrial views. Today, her artwork is primarily created in the studio where she imbues botanical subjects with unimaginable personality and emotion.
Dale has achieved international recognition through participation in solo and group exhibitions, receiving awards and having her artwork published in print and online.
Dale M Reid is currently based in Toronto, Canada.
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