"The
recent camera paintings are studio based photography with a 35mm camera
using filters and extension tubes for macro shots. None of the images
are digitally manipulated, although the still images are currently being
made into video clips. I still maintain that my use of the camera is part
of the painting process that I am involved in and do not claim to be a
photographer!"
Alison A Raimes, July 2004
What has been
said:
"I'm
particularly drawn by the vibrant and intense colors, and the feeling
that I'm looking at things which should be familiar, but I can't quite
place". Dr.
Carlyn G. Morenus (pianist) 2004
"A
great deal of my thinking about this is thanks to your site. I'd never
really given the idea of "abstract photography" much thought
before I ran into your work. Photography, as a whole, never interested
me much -- other than as a point of departure for my portrait paintings.
But abstract photography seems interesting to me, because it can take
the ordinary world and reveal the magic contained in it. It's especially
interesting when the photograph is untampered with, and shows something
"real", but it's difficult to determine what it we're actually
looking at". Nik,
2003
"That
moment of reflection taught me something else lost on-line, the size of
these works. A painting that looked like a study under a microscope is
five feet on a side. Imagined in its reality, it acquires the bare beauty
of abstraction. Other images that somehow have ample room for points of
ink-like detail, like a geode, run no more than a foot across. Large
forms also have a strange fineness, but in motion. In that new triptych,
a wave seems to have moved from left to right. It bursts the bounds of
a single panel, like an Asian screen. Yet it, too, is small. Artists like
to distinguish size from scale, but here the distinction has a way of
unsettling what I think I saw ". John
Haber, (art writer) New York 2002
"I
know why your art made me think of large expanses of fathomlessness. They
look somewhat like the images from some telescopes of clusters distant
galaxies. I had a gut reaction a little like that chap that went through
the tunnel in 2001, but I couldn't figure out why I was connecting this
to your images. The images are provocative in that they allow your mind
to make its own connections. They suggest some abstract object to me or
something very distant". Paul
Gates, (scientist) UK 2001
"I
have one of Alison's works. Let me try to paint it in words. What she
does with wrinkles and textures is quite incredible. A dark blue background,
and a scape which looks like the craters of the moon. Colors are siennas,
violets, off whites, blues, some greens and others too subtle to describe
now. The wrinkles appear as the Martian canals. Main thing is the textural
quality of the piece: Some of the paint is 1/16th of an inch thick, some
less bulging. Wrinkles, 1/32nd, or so. The effect is of a self contained
world, mysterious and active". Peter
Heller, (painter) (1929-2002),
Vermont USA 1999
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