S C A R L E T J A M E S
What inspires me .. I don`t know …anything .. Everything ..only something…
Listening to music ..looking at a picture..
Sitting, standing, dreaming in silence..
Television .. A Film.. A Word… Nothing….
An art gallery … A Book ..other people`s work …
Panic….
Fear…
What motivates me ..all the above and more or less…
Why????
SCARLET is a photographer whose work is exhibited and sold in galleries in England and America. Her images have been bought by greeting card companies and have been published in magazines.
She discovered photography a few years ago and worked in black and white. One day she saw the magic of Polaroid and "fell in love". Their SX-70 film allows her to manipulate the emulsion before it dries and paint on oils and dyes to give a more 'painterly' effect. This technique also makes every picture an original piece of work. Later, inevitably computer technology arrived in her life - she came out of her darkroom into the light. It has been and remains a passionate and exciting journey.
At the start of the millennium Scarlet's "Manipulated Manipulations" exhibition was shown at the Barbican Centre, London and around the UK - it is now in Flordia. She became an associate of the Royal Photography Society in 1998. The images here are a sample of her work.