Featured Artist: Robert Creamer

Jello Peony by Robert Creamer

I was talking with an Art Consultant in Florida this week and she said I had to check out the work of Robert Creamer. She said she had just bought a large print from him.

His floral pictures are certainly distinctive. He tends to use cultivated plants; often scattering the petals in decorative patterns. Since they are scans and not photographs, almost all are with black backgrounds.

There was an interesting article about his work in Smithsonian Magazine:"What Camera?"

The article explains his process:

Creamer, who has been professionally photographing architecture and museum installations for more than 30 years, migrated from camera to scanner—essentially an office color copier—over the past five years after clients began asking for digital images instead of the 4- by 5-inch film he had long used

To learn more, Robert's website is: www.creamerphoto.com

Comments

[John Storjohann]

An interesting article on Robert Creamer's work; I’ve seen one or two other artists that use scanners as their primary capture source for flowers and plants; many of his images almost look like complex, abstract paintings created from natural images..interesting approach and style, although I still prefer to capture what I see in the wild.