Honorable Mention
Celestial Vision
DESCRIPTION
This is the interior view of a small greenhouse, I discovered in Brooklyn, New York. The incoming sunlight made the tainted glasswork shine like a lantern. I was lying on my back looking up to the pointy ceiling. Watching through a very wide angle lens I experienced the greenhouse like being in a translucent cathedral. I particularly loved all the details: the glorious light, the colored squares and rectangles, being mixed with plant elements and their shadows. Architectural design by Tom Fruin. AUTHOR
Paul Brouns was born in 1967 in Ittervoort, a small village in the south of the Netherlands.He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tilburg (Academie voor beeldende vorming). After his graduation (Cum Laude, 1990) he started exhibiting paintings and graphic prints.
In the 1990s he was also one of the first artists to employ graphic computer electronics as a tool to create art. Around this time Paul Brouns also became more and more interested in graphic design. In 2008 he started working as a freelancer in order to free up more time for his artistic ambitions.
Inspired by the new possibilities in digital photography, in recent years he has concentrated mainly on this new medium. Because of his ongoing infatuation with geometrical patterns, repetition and luscious colours, he has developed his personal approach to architectural photography. This work resembles his early abstract work, but through photography it is more strongly linked to the world as he observes it.
His work is available in certified limited editions and is bought regularly by art collectors worldwide.
