Fleur olby biography sample
This publication is the first on Olby's photography, and it depicts not merely plants and flowers but a career that has flourished over the years.!
Fleur Olby
Fleur Olby, BA (Hons), MA (CSM) is an artist photographer working at the intersection of Gardens, Landscape and Plant Portraits.
Al and fellow photographer Fleur Olby organised Photosketch, a photography based walk by Fleur's home near Rathmell, a village even smaller than.
She questions and explores the essence or sensation of the Enigmatic spirit of Nature. Her narrative is in the form of visual poems.
Her practice developed through an aesthetic focus on still-life photography & the colour from white, a professional grounding that along with many years experience of studio work for editorial, design & advertising clients, led her back to the subject of natural light & Goethe’s Colour theory on the refraction of light from black.
The series, Colour from Black is an exploration of the line of abstraction of Nature, Air, Light where a photographic image connects to an abstract emotion Memory of, & movement through nature – the differential scales of plant, garden & landscape alongside a paradoxical engagement with the static image, create a convergence in her work which captures bot