Chris Steele has been using the female naked form as his artistic muse since his art school days, but even now does not know where an image will take him once he has begun working on it.
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“I combine my photographs and drawings as layers of images, blended, combined, tweaked until I arrive at a certain point,” he said.
“I play with whatever direction it takes me in, whatever I end up with.”
This might include drawing on a page, photographing it, applying wet ink, hosing down the surface then photographing it so that it appears ‘alive’ then photographing it again and digitally altering it using photoshop. The end result then hints at how the work began but does not provide any clear answers.
“I play on that ambiguity, and that theme continues on through my sculptures too.”
Chris believes that “the ‘figure feminie nuge’ is one of the most powerful forms in the history of art... [with] connotations to mother nature and the origins of life imbuing the composition with deeper significance.”
