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Mobile Photography and Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 10 May 2020
‘Literature is the most powerful means we have for communicating consciousness’, said author Garth Greenwell. The author of a new book, ‘Cleanness’ which I have yet to read, as I am currently rereading his debut ‘What belongs to you’, a book that has served Greenwell, so well. It’s not the subject that draws me as much as the equisite literature that soaks every line. However, I believe good art can be the most powerful means we have for communicating consciousness. The kind of art that worms its way into a person’s being, art that imbues our lives, illuminating our innermost thoughts with eloquence, compassion. Art teaches us to be more…
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Mobile Photography and Art ‘Hope in Adversity’ Interview with Jenny Pieters from South Africa
Today, we are publishing our twenty second interview in our new series, Hope in Adversity. One that’s based around art, artists and isolation during the midst of Covid-19. This one is with award winning mobile photographer and artist Jenny Pieters from South Africa. This is a very alluring interview with ravishing art that flagrantly gives pleasure upon the viewing screen. Viewing Pieters images made me cogitate poet Wallace Stevens ‘notes towards a supreme fiction’ poem. It offers three notes toward a “supreme fiction” it must be abstract, it must change, it must give pleasure. Pieters art does all these things, enjoy! To read others in this series of interviews with Jill Lian,…
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Mobile Photography and Art – ‘Hope in Adversity’ Interview with Cintia Malhotra from New Jersey, United States
Today, we are publishing our twenty first interview in our new series, Hope in Adversity. One that’s based around art, artists and isolation during the midst of Covid-19. This interview is with award winning mobile photographer with Cintia Malhotra from New Jersey, United States. Malhotra is a visual artist and educator who has been involved in the arts community since childhood. Despite having visual impairment, she chose to focus on the visual arts. Much of her photography involves a combination of abstraction and personification to create a narrative for the viewer. In addition to this, she explains “I often like to explore social issues and reconnect with the human experience by…
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Mobile Photography and Art ‘Hope in Adversity’ Interview with Catherine Caddigan from the United States
Today, we are publishing our twentieth interview in our new series, Hope in Adversity. One that’s based around art, artists and isolation during the midst of Covid-19. This interview is with award winning mobile photographer with Catherine Caddigan from the United States. Caddigan reminds us that the qualitative experience behind each individual’s existence during lockdown 2020 can be so different. We all have much to learn about quite how unique each one of us is in the lockdown reality in which we find ourselves today. Enjoy! To read others in this series of interviews with Jill Lian, Vicki Cooper, Gerry Coe, Sarah Bichachi, Sukru Mehmet Omur, Phyllis Shenny, Alisa Smith Williams, Joy…
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Mobile Photography and Art ‘Hope in Adversity’ Interview with Rob Pearson-Wright from London, United Kingdom
Today, we are publishing our ninteenth interview in our new series, Hope in Adversity. One that’s based around art, artists and isolation during the midst of Covid-19. This interview is with award winning mobile photographer with Rob Pearson-Wright from London, UK. Pearson-Wright doesn’t mince his words, he tells us like it is and we’re all the better for it. Enjoy! To read others in this series of interviews with Jill Lian, Vicki Cooper, Gerry Coe, Sarah Bichachi, Sukru Mehmet Omur, Phyllis Shenny, Alisa Smith Williams, Joy Barry, Fleur Schim, Fiona Christian, Peter Wilkin, Ile Mont, Lynette Sheppard, M. Cecilia Sao Thiago and Susan Latty, please follow this link
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Mobile Photography and Art ‘Hope in Adversity’ Interview with M. Cecilia São Thiago from São Paulo, Brazil
Today, we are publishing our eighteenth interview in our new series, Hope in Adversity. One that’s based around art, artists and isolation during the midst of Covid-19. This interview is with award winning mobile artist with M. Cecilia São Thiago from São Paulo, Brazil. São Thiago’s photographs are exquisite and allegorical in nature. Their vitality is instrumental in pulling the viewer into a very intimate world chronicling the self and beyond. Mysticism and spirituality have long informed São Thiago’s practice and she is refreshingly transparent about her work. She once told me, “my photos carry in each of them everything that I have learned, what I have lived, and what I have suffered”. This…
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Mobile Photography and Art ‘Hope in Adversity’ Interview with Lynette Sheppard from Hawaii, United States
Today, we are publishing our seventeenth interview in our new series, Hope in Adversity. One that’s based around art, artists and isolation during the midst of Covid-19. This interview is with award winning mobile artist with Lynette Sheppard from Hawaii, United States. It’s clear when reading this interview that there is no real separation between art and life in Sheppard’s art. It’s socially engaged art containing just the right amount of energy and instinctive brilliance, enjoy! To read others in this series of interviews with Jill Lian, Vicki Cooper, Gerry Coe, Sarah Bichachi, Sukru Mehmet Omur, Phyllis Shenny, Alisa Smith Williams, Joy Barry, Ile Mont and, Fleur Schim, Fiona Christian, Peter Wilkin,…
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Mobile Photography and Art Interview – Hope In Adversity Interview with Clint Cline from Florida, United States
Today, we are publishing our sixteenth interview in our new series, Hope in Adversity. One that’s based around art, artists and isolation during the midst of Covid-19. This interview is with award winning mobile artist with Clint Cline from Florida, United States. Cline employs a technique within his painting that embodies religion, storytelling and abstract art. His paintings are powerful, mysterious amalgams of landscapes and unique craggy forms that elicit abstract shapes, symmetrically balancing powerful colour tones. Grounded by the love and support of his family, his faith and mobile art, Cline delves deeper into some projects that he explains, he has ‘long neglected’. The imagery employed has the simplicity of…
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Mobile Photography & Art – ‘Hope in Adversity Interview’ with Fiona Christian, from East Sussex, England, UK
I am currently shielding for twelve weeks and in my home, we have all had to make adaptions to adjust to this pandemic, although, at least, currently, we are all well. I’ve been recalling many of the good words our dear friend and talented artist Carolyn Hall Young shared with us, not least ‘in any given situation we can always choose, hope over fear‘ – let’s all choose hope. I am aware there are many others also in a similar situation at the moment and I felt it would be a good idea to create an interview, reflecting these times with stunning imagery. This is a new series of interview with mobile…
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Mobile Photography and Art Interview – Hope In Adversity Interview with Sukru Memet Omur from Paris, France
I am currently shielding for twelve weeks and in my home, we have all had to make adaptions to adjust to this pandemic, although, at least, currently, we are all well. I’ve been recalling many of the good words our dear friend and talented artist Carolyn Hall Young shared with us, not least ‘in any given situation we can always choose, hope over fear‘ – let’s all choose hope. I am aware there are many others also in a similar situation at the moment and I felt it would be a good idea to create an interview, reflecting these times with stunning imagery. This is a new series of interview with mobile…