Title: Unleash Your Creativity: A Process-Driven Approach
Website Address: www.wildliz.com
Bio:
Liz Guertin is a Maryland based nature photographer. When she’s not in Maryland, she can be found living out of her car about half the year with her dog, Buster. She’s still fairly new at photography beyond the cell phone, having only shot her first RAW photo in manual settings sometime in 2021. She still finds herself exclaiming with surprise and joy anytime a work is selected for a juried show or wins any kind of mention or award. She will exhibit her first solo show this October at the Patuxent Research Refuge in Laurel, Maryland. She’s enjoying this amazing adventure and the places it takes her, both artistically and on four wheels.
Talk Description:
Join artist Liz Guertin as we explore the practice of process-driven making as a means of creative exploration. As photographers we are often both subject and outcomes driven – think of portrait photographers or astrophotographers or Ansel Adams waiting days for the perfect light to shine down on Yosemite Valley. While these are valid and wonderful forms of expression, what if we threw out the rules and focused on specific techniques as a means of exploring, playing, and unexpected outcomes? Think of artists like Jackson Pollock or Rothko. Throwing paint at a canvas or making squares into infinity. This type of making allows us to focus on honing our process without ideas of perfect focus, sharpness, or even studied composition (though never fully abandon composition!). Instead, it allows for experimentation, play, and exciting image-making. We’ll look at both artists and photographers who apply this approach to their work as well as Liz’s adventure in using ICM & Multiple Exposures to explore ideas of environmental degradation in her project Vanishing World.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. –Thomas Merton
Liz Guertin
Web: http://www.wildliz.com
IG: Liz Guertin (@wildliz_photography)
Phone: 443-370-9776