Lucy Gauntlett

'‘’I use photography the way a painter uses a paint brush – to illustrate my visions and to create NZ themed works that are exciting, vibrant and uplifting.’’ Lucy studied at Auckland University and holds an Architecture Degree with photography being self-taught. Along with Lucy’s panoramic NZ landscape photography, she now pushes & merges the boundaries of NZ photography & art which is seen through her more recent mixed media 'digital fusion' works which layer texture, drawing and painting. This method of ‘creating’ uses today's technology produces works that are enchanting, innovative & exciting. However they still derive their content largely from photography but are processed in a way that makes them look more like mixed media or paintings. After 10 years working as an architect Lucy is now an interdisciplinary artist pursuing photography, design and art, based in Auckland.  With both professions the fundamentals lie with composition, colour and detail and she is uses photography and mixed media to ‘illustrate’ her visions often utilising new-age digital technology intermixed with traditional methods. Her tropically themed NZ bird artworks really celebrate nature with many photographic 'pieces' composed together to produce digital mixed media works that look like surreal paintings with flamboyant colours and lots of hidden detail. 

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