MOTION STUDIES

In this series I make abstractions using a slow shutter speed shot while moving the camera. Often exposed at night, these are all found lighting situations printed with minimal digital manipulations. I take many exposures, experimenting with subtleties and dramas, hunting for how a certain flick of the wrist divulges new information or drawing out an exposure to intensify a scene.

Motion and time are rendered visible, graphically revealing the latent rhythms and patterns of the material world while tracing the camera's navigation through it. My interest also lies in process: how to balance the chaos of a moving camera with the control gained over patient experimentation.

I am concerned with what motion reveals about the quality of a light source: does it flicker or vibrate, does it intersect with other lights, does it reveal an architectural shape or obscure it? These images blend a thin slice of space and a thick slice of time to create a fiction from a mundane reality.

In learning to draw, one learns to see. An artist must become an accomplished observer of detail, then be brave and bold to put it to paper, pen sometimes quivering in hand. the rewards are much more than artwork, for the Universe not noticed before appears in your line of vision in all of its wonder and glory. It was there all the time, waiting for you to see it. Now, start drawing"
"To paint is to love, and to love is to live again." Henry Miller

I spent over a decade years working as a Cell Biologist and am fascinated by complex systems, both evolved and designed. On one level my work explores the variety of relationships between form and function and challenges well-known connections between familiar objects by using them to create new forms and new functions. On another level my work examines the matrix of connections between intention and adaptation. Some of the permutations and chimeras I create may echo known biological or man made systems while others may create entirely novel systems that invite careful study. My art is influenced by my experiences both as a biologist and as a landscape designer and makes extensive use of plants and textures. Like a living cell, an organism, or a garden, each piece I create is an individual unit of function. The pieces often begin with a general concept or an interest in juxtaposing certain materials and they evolve through a combination of deliberate decisions and the unique adaptive properties of the materials.

Eve Skylar is a San-Francisco based Production Designer and Concept Artist for Animation, Film, and Game. She is currently working on two animated films; a feature for Marza Animation Planet (SEGA) for 2012 and a short film with an international team lead by Carlos Baena.

Dreaming of the seaside and horses. 
I grew up at Muir Beach just North of the Golden Gate and in the Napa Valley where impressions of Northern California and my continued passion for riding are the inspiration for my paintings.
I studied fine art at CCSF and graphic design at Platt College in San Francisco and became a furniture designer for a family furniture business.
My furniture designs have been featured on HGTV and Extreme Makeover and my showroom has been shopped by Sherwin Williams to determine current color forecasts.
Now a full time artist, my art is has been purchased by HGTV Secrets of a Stylist's show, the editors of Better Home and Gardens Magazine and is sold through Galleries, Designer Showrooms, Furniture Stores and The Atlanta and High Point Furniture Markets. 
Founder of COCA the Coalition of California Artists, a group marketing to the home furnishing industry.President Petaluma Arts Association 2013, 2014Thank you for your interest.

Music is the main source of inspiration for my paintings. Music, forged by the composer from air and sound, has motion and shape, and incredible emotional substance. I listen over and over to grasp the essence of each work of orchestra music. I try to understand its particular beauty, its emotion, its unique character as well as architecture and form—then try to put that into paint on canvas.

My fine art work consists primarily of landscape and cityscape images drawn from the Bay Area and throughout the West. A few of the pieces are semi-abstracts derived from some of the more naturalistic captures. For my San Francisco Twilight Series plus other SF scenes please see http://molephoto.com/wordpress1/galleries/san-francisco/