Roger Dawson

Roger Dawson was born July 1948 in Sheffield, Yorkshire. One of his earliest memories is of being given a Kodak Brownie for his tenth birthday. It was totally magic and he can still feel the excitement… not just because for the first time he could capture that very instant … but because he had the possibility of adapting the picture and thus change the instant of time.

Over the following forty years Dawson has taken thousands of photographs of the many varied and beautiful places around the world that he has been privileged to visit. To capture the instant has always been this artist's objective and to a great extent, he feels he has succeeded.

During the last five years, he has worked with a variety of software programs and created his own algorithms which generate colours and shapes to modify and extend the original photographs. The altered works are then giclee printed onto artist canvasses for exhibition. Dawson believes that the unique flavour of his compositions lie not just in the exhibition of their size or modifications but are best illustrated by the strength of the colours used. As Dawson is colour blind the modified canvasses appear normal to him, although he has been told that he must see the world through rose coloured glasses… and if that wasn't enough, all those colours that have inhabited Dawson's private world have now become available to everyone through his canvasses.

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