The tricks of Vision

Photography and relevance in the artist's life.

It has served the imagination using the camera as a tool of creative expression.
Atkinsons engagement with photography spans half her life -- her curiosity and sense of awe, the camera as companion to Atkinsons artistic process and experience of the physical world with an open curiosity about the end result.
She photographs the surfaces of roads, the cracks in pavements, attention to the minutiae, the trees, the canopies, the physical shapes in our environment.
She has a strong sense of pattern encapsulating Atkinsons relationship with landscape. The moving images of the journeys by car, by train, on foot shows a long standing empathy with the environment.Each of them, the isolated fragments can become totems.
For Atkinson the camera is a straightforward useful tool recording details of people and things she finds in the world.
It enables her to capitalize on other procedures she is drawn to; re-examining her works in progress screenprinting,drawing and painting, capturing the tricks
of vision and juxtaposing diverse images.

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