Brigitte Carnochan

Brigitte Carnochan

California Bay Area photographer Brigitte Carnochan says of her work,

"I use black and white film to concentrate an image to its most abstract form, and then I color it to energize it visually and convey its essence according to the sense of my own imagination, to give the image my own interpretation."

The artist's subject matter includes dewy roses and gardenias, sensuous nudes veiled in diaphanous fabric, and landscape views of Martha's Vineyard. Wanda Corn has said of the work that, "Carnochan is both a photographer and a painter. First, she takes her subject, whether flowers or the human body, and focuses her lens on an essential form, be it a mysterious gesture, a tantalizing slice of light, or a dancing line. Second, she mixes her palette of oils and delicately applies color to suggest tones in nature and give ethereal presence to blossoms and turned limbs."

For the most part, Carnochan's models are from her dance classes, she says, or, in the case of the flowers, her garden. Carnochan clearly sees the formal and expressive similarities in the two subject matters. She brilliantly captures the sensual essence of the female body and flowers. Carnochan's process of handcoloring her photographs is a beautiful blending of two inherently different artistic media. The photograph provides the artist with a technically reproduced image and the application of oil paint allows Carnochan to infuse the image with her creative vision.

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