A selection of my latest work and ramblings. All photographs and other images are copyright ยฉ Leigh Kemp. All associated rights are reserved. Copying, altering, displaying or distributing these images without the expressed written permission from me is strictly prohibited. You can purchase many of my works on my Pixels.com Shop. Please use the contact link below or the contact link on my website if you would like to make an enquiry regarding my work. "Painterly": relating to or characteristic of painting or painters. Eclectic: deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources ๐. I have several online exhibitions and have published three books of my work. All views expressed are entirely my own. I receive no revenue from sponsorship or advertising, this site is funded entirely out of my own pocket. If you enjoy it, please consider buying me a coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/LeighK thanks.
About
My fascination with computer graphics began about 35 years ago with some software that I got on a free floppy disk on the cover of a computer magazine and ever since then Iโve been hooked. Iโve come a long way since then, the software that I use is now much more sophisticated but my enjoyment hasnโt in any way diminished. I got my first camera at the age of 9, a battered old twin-lens reflex camera which my grandfather โloanedโ toย me and my first serious camera, a 35 mm film camera, in my late teens.
Built in the fifties, original and unrestored with some parts still in working orderย ๐ย and living in London UK I am a self-taught โpaintographerโ. I take photographs because I really enjoy photography. I endeavour to create digital art because I LOVE art. I also love to travel whenever I get the opportunity and landscapes are my favorite subject.ย โ
For me there are only a few things that are of prime importance in a camera and lenses. They have to be small, light, well built, reliable and take well exposed and sharp images. The thing that I most enjoy about photography is finding subjects/locations and imagining how they might look when Iโve had a chance to work with my images. So thereโs a sort of feedback loop already going on in my head when Iโm looking around and taking pictures.โ
What the camera sees is one thing what my mindโs eye sees is another thing entirely. What Iโm always searching for in a scene are aspects such as perspective, textures, compositional elements and lighting etc. and well beyond that how I can work with these when Iโve downloaded my images which brings me on to processing (hate the term), for me, by far the most important and exciting part.โ
A while back I stumbled across the perfect description for my type of work โPaintographyโ some years after I stumbled into it completely unaware that there was such a thing. I guess this is where the photographer in me stops and my artistic side takes full-rein if indeed one can separate one from the other. Put simply, this is the point where I have complete artistic freedom to explore and mix different techniques and open the lid on a Pandoraโs box of artistic possibilities, such a large box that even after some years Iโm very much still discovering and experimenting with new things.โ
โPainterlyโ โ relating to or characteristic of painting or painters.
๐จโPaintographyโย ๐ทย โ A combination of Digital Photography and Digital Painting This is more than editing a photograph, it includes actual digital painting segments in the same work of art, generally on canvas. Artists using digital photography as a basis for a digital painting are doing paintography.โ (urban dictionary)