As primarily an impressionistic photographer, I love exploring the interaction between color, movement, and light as it exists in nature.
My most recent series, "Il Giardino," is a compilation of images taken throughout Connecticut's community gardens project. I observed various growth levels, development, and change in the plants throughout the vibrant, lovingly tended floral gardens every day, at multiple times per day. In doing so, I imagined myself intertwining amongst the diversity of plant species, feeling the wind rustling my petals, the sun regenerating my leaves. My photographic process is always experimental, and for this series, I explored using various focal lengths and multiple exposures to create soft, layered, dreamlike, and painterly effects. In these images, I hope the viewer feels as though they are not just an outside observer of the beauty of flowers but are also a part of the garden itself.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Any Shape or Form, Annual Juried Photography Show
Upstream Gallery, Hastings on Hudson, NY / Feb 2022
Images 2021 Fall Exhibition, Shoreline Arts Alliance Honorable Mention
Sill House Gallery,Old Lyme, CT / December 2021
Abstracting Nature
Spectrum Gallery Essex, CT / May 2021
Art of the Flower, Juried online exhibition
Medford Arts, NJ / March 2021
Images 2021
Shoreline Arts Alliance CT / March 2021
Conception Art Show, New York City
Conception Arts, New York, NY / August 2019
International Photography Exhibition
The Glasgow Gallery Of Photography Glasgow, Scotland/ July 2019
Rendering Likeness, Volume 2
Established Gallery, Brooklyn, NY / June 2019
People's Choice Salon Show
Greenpoint Gallery Brooklyn, NY / May 2019
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
Abstraction Issue, F-Stop Magazine, 2019
The Pivotal Image, Cumulus Photo, 2019
Weekend Portfolio, Musée Magazine, 2019
Weekend Portfolio, Musée Magazine, 2017
For Inquiries please email me at elizabethlaurenwest@gmail.com