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About the Artist
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About the artist....
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These pages feature the work of a self-taught photoartist and amateur flower gardener. Over the course of 30 plus years Patri has worked in many traditional photographic mediums including several of the 'non-silver' processes and was the author of 'Adventures In Blueprinting', a manual featuring the cyanotype process. In 1987 she was chosen by the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC to represent photographic designs on fabric as 'wearable photography' and is included in their permanent design lab collection. Patri has won no awards and holds no impressive degrees, nor does she exhibit widely.
Exploring digital printmaking began in the early 1990s using analog video frames as the source. Today, her design process utilize both digital camera images and digitized botanical "scanography". The live three-dimensional objects are captured with a large-format flatbed scanner used as if it was a camera.
The majority of the traditional annual and perennial specimens you'll see in her arrangements were grown in the artist's small suburban garden, though some were pilfered from neighbors or friends' flower beds or collected from the regional meadows, seashore and woods of southern New England.
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in-scanner "pop-arty" effect
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Unless specified as 'digital photo' or 'digital painting' the fine art prints and art cards displayed in these galleries are all scanography.
The eye-popping dimensionality and macro-like detail is the result of careful lighting and arrangement just as with camera photography. Many motifs are exhibited in a variety of both photo-realistic or 'painted' compositions, often following the tradition of scientific botanical illustration.
Each print is considered a unique work of art, designed and printed one at a time, not on a press as one of an "edition". This allows each impression to be rendered in differing colorings, stylizations or creative techniques. The prints are made on a variety of media and media textures from a traditional glossy photographic finish to cold-press watercolor artist paper. Many of the recent scans can be enlarged to poster and wall mural-sized dimensions.
Recently Patri's "Autumn Explosion" was demonstrated in "The Digital Canvas", a publication featuring the work of pixel painters and artists.
Currently she is working on a showcase book "Scanography" for Ilex Press. Release is planned for fall 2007.
Artist Statement
"I hope you get as much enjoyment from viewing my work as I find creating it."
I am very grateful that you've chosen to visit my gallery, purchase my artwork, read my tutorials and attend my workshops. Without the continued support of my patrons, readers and students I wouldn't have been able to take my medium this far. Thank you again.
Related Links
Q&A on "scanography".
"The List" of other photoartists that employ scanography.
Oil portrait of me done around 1998 by Lynne Malvoso (thanks Lynne!)
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realistic scan
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GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE DEPT.
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My floral scanography is often confused with the work of Ellen Hoverkamp of near-by West Haven, CT. We developed our techniques independently and didn't meet or even realize there was another obsessive scanographer minutes down I-95 until 2003. To view Ellen's scanography, click. I have to agree that some of our work is suspiciously similar (great minds think alike, huh?) as illustrated below:
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ELLEN
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PATRI
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