The American Juried Art Salon - Emerging Artists Series
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Mary Mansey
The Mediterranean Sea—with its streams of color, its light, its reflections—has fascinated me since I was a child.
Water continues to be the main source of inspiration. Water is constantly changing and I seek to capture its many
forms, before they disappear, in my photography.
While nature is the starting point, abstraction is the goal. I capture the natural world only to enhance it through careful
manipulation with digital imaging software. My multi-layered images begin with a single photo, which is transformed
Ramatuelle, archival pigment print on
Hahnemühle FineArt rag paper
Monterosso, archival pigment print on
Hahnemühle FineArt rag paper
Source Printemps, archival pigment print on
Hahnemühle FineArt rag paper
and sometimes combined with other photographs. The goal is to achieve the expressiveness of painting through the artistic treatment of the
images. Even though I never use human figures, my photographs are ultimately more about people than about nature. The ripples and
reflections represent ephemeral, passing moments that can be briefly perceived by the camera or human eye. I live and work in Aix les Bains
in the French Alps. marymansey.com/index.html
Entre Deux, archival pigment print on
Hahnemühle FineArt rag paper
Barque au Printemps, archival pigment print
on Hahnemühle FineArt rag paper
Garda Hiver, archival pigment print on
Hahnemühle FineArt rag paper
Malaga, archival pigment print on
Hahnemühle FineArt rag paper
Granada, archival pigment print on
Hahnemühle FineArt rag paper
Liserai rouge, archival pigment print on
Hahnemühle FineArt rag paper
Port Hiver, archival pigment print on
Hahnemühle FineArt rag paper
Soleil, archival pigment print on
Hahnemühle FineArt rag paper