My medium is photography. Photography keeps me involved in seeing, observing, reinterpreting the world as I move through it, watching the light, the people's faces as we interact in casual conversations. Lately I have been photographing nature where there are not people, only light and shadow as it moves on the landscape of trees and water.
As a portrait and landscape photographer, I look for special moments to capture – the scene, emotional values, time of day, the light.
I start with a question or feeling about the environment, then study data like maps and satellite images. I go into the field with my camera — sometimes using materials like wildfire charcoal — and create images that combine data with personal observation, helping people see and feel environmental changes.
I’ve photographed many things that are objectively beautiful - birds, flowers, landscapes - but I strongly believe that humans are some of the most beautiful, interesting things that exist. When I photograph people I can create art that I believe is innovative. So that is what I frequently shoot. Then, I take that image and work with it to bring…
During this time of quarantine, we are most lucky as artists to be able to continue the work of making. It may be that if we are forced to stay with our work, and are less distracted by things beckoning us from the outside world, we might find that we can go deeper than we expected.This may take a variety…
I work in a variety of sketchbooks of varying sizes in my art making. A few years ago I realized that hundreds of books were headed for the landfill, so I began reclaiming some of them as sketchbooks to work in. In the first photo I have arranged a number of them on a table top along with my usual…
Honoring the Past and Present Members of the Carrboro Branch Library Art Committee Over the past eighteen years the artist run Carrboro Branch Library's Arts Program has shown the work of over 1,750 local visual artists in over 60 exhibitions, won two Frances B. Reid Awards from the Friends of North Carolina Public Libraries, and won a national award from the…
An upcoming exhibit titled Beijing Impressions: A Multi-Media Collaboration combines multi-layered photographic imagery from Barbara Tyroler’s Beijing Impressions series with a brand new set of collaborative, hand made, paper collages by Sandy Milroy. Sandy reflects, " Our introduction to working together came when Barbara asked to come to my studio to see what I was doing in the area of collage making…
Every art show I attend, I have people of all ages walk into my booth and ask me what effects, filters, program...insert digital media here...I use. I proudly answer "none" and watch a variety of expressions that range from delight to confusion dart across their faces. It seems that as a group, we assume anything vibrant and colorful to be…
As an artist I am always looking for ways to fund my next project. The need for supplies, inspiration, a place to work and an audience are constant in an artist’s life. So we are always hungry for info about grants, fellowships, workshops, residencies, a new show or gallery…anything to get our art out there for the world to see. Ideally it…