I’m Francie the artist behind the camera and the creator of the work you see here. It’s taken me a long time to accept the word artist, and it’s finally something I have embraced. I have an interesting history in art. My mom noticed at a young age that I had some talent, so for as long as I can remember I took art lessons. I studied at the Glassel School in Houston and majored in art in college and minored in photography – but that is where it ended.
My life got side tracked into the world of business. I never stopped piddling in art or something creative. The camera was always one of my favorite mediums; I just didn’t realize I had a gift of seeing things differently through a viewfinder. Then through a series of life changing events, my life opened back to the world of photography and then to the world of art in photography. I have a deep passion for photography and I love creating art.
My high school art teacher taught me that "art is in the mind & soul of the artist." I think I am beginning to understand what he meant.
I hope you enjoy looking around my site – it’s still in development. I hope you find my art wonderful, beautiful, disturbing, turbulent and fascinating. I hopeit creates a sense of wonder and you ask yourself "is that really a photograph?" For those of who fall in love with a piece – everything is for sale. Please contact me and we will create a piece like no other just for you. For those of you who hate my work, I’m honored that I have stirred an emotion in you and thank you for viewing my work. I want my work to evoke an emotion and get the viewer questioning.
Every piece is a one of kind. Once I print and image in a specific way and in a specific size, it never gets printed that way again. When I run out of creative ways to present my work it will no longer be available.
Many ask me “what is it?” “How did you make it look that way?” “is it really a photography?” - All of my work begins with a photograph. I work on it in a variety of ways but mostly I do work on it in Photoshop. I don’t write down how I do what I do and so rarely can I duplicate the same method on two images. This is both a blessing and a curse.
I also use a variety of printing methods including canvas, metal, watercolor paper, metallic paper, ilford paper, giclee paper among others.
Thanks for viewing my work –
Francie
