My Creative Images - UK (2019-12)

My Creative Images – Behind the scenes

Photographer – macro, still life, gardens and food

Photo artist – increasingly using a watercolour / sketch

technique I’ve developed which produces a unique

illustrated look.

Michelle’s artwork is best described in her own words: ‘My

artwork is a blend of my photography, my passions and my

frustrations of not being able to paint or draw.’

A very dear photography friend once described my recent

work as ‘fine art meets contemporary surrealism, meets

illogical contemplation with a touch of fairy dust.’ I love

that too!

Do you consider yourself to be more a photographer

or a photo artist?

At the moment I’m just coming to the end of my photog-

rapher stage for the year and as the Winter months creep

in the photo artist comes out. Where possible I prefer to

photograph all the elements I use in my art and as a lot of

it is insects or flowers I am limited to certain times of the

year. So I guess you could say I fluctuate between the two

depending on the seasons.

When did you first start out in photography and

photo art?

Like a lot of people, I had my first camera when I was

younger but only used it on holiday, school trips or when

the kids were little. I started using a camera in earnest in

2000, when I started studying for my Environmental Science

Degree with the Open University. I found it a useful tool

for recording finds on field trips and used the images for

identification purposes and including in dissertations. As

most of my subjects were flowers and insects it was no

surprise that I developed an interest in Macro and still life

photography.

You have the most amazing online art gallery! Would

you like to tell us a little about it?

Thank you. It’s a WordPress website built using the DIVI

builder.

I’ve been creating websites for about 15 years and have

been using Wordpress for as long as I can remember. I

started using the DIVI builder about 2 years ago and it’s

taken my websites to a whole new level. It has some

really great features including a visual mode which gives

you the ability to build pages on the front end of the

website allowing for better styling and much faster design

build. I’ve also incorporated an eCommerce plugin, called

Michelle Whitmore by VivienJane

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