About
Welcome to my Gallery and photo-blog. Here you will find the latest photographs and drawings which I have created / captured / slaved over.
About Me
I am an amateur / hobby photographer and artist who does this for the love of creating beautiful images (and also because of being a Scotsman, is too cheap to buy real art to hang on the walls).
Not having to worry about making images pay, I can concentrate on what speaks to me personally, regardless of commercial interest.
Vital Stats
| Age | 256 892 hrs |
| Freckle colour | brown |
| Eye colour | mainly white |
| Favourite film | Fuji Velvia |
| Favourite book | paperback |
About my photos
I shoot entirely digitally with Canon gear. I like the indoor comforts of studio shooting (and have a range of flash and continuous lighting to allow me these comforts) but have been learning of the beauty to be found outside my own 4 walls. I enjoy photographing everything from tiny insects up to wide sweeping landscapes (which are much harder to fit into the studio) and the only requirement is that I find it somehow interesting.
About my drawings
I’ve been drawing on and off for much longer than I care to remember (or in fact can remember) and it was through my impatience with drawing that I became interested in photography. I draw mainly portraits / figures. I am fascinated with the aesthetic of human beauty, what underlies it, the similarities and differences.
The human brain seems hard-wired to find people everywhere, from the intentions of inanimate objects to the face in a scribble. This makes the work of representing people in art quite easy, the viewer will seek out faces and bodies wherever it can. Once it has found someone, there seems to a secondary instinct to judge the new “person” (like / different, friend / foe, good / bad, attractive / not) and somehow from a few marks on a page, an entire personality with motivations, history and future comes popping out. This all happens autonomously, subconsciously and using hidden assumptions.
Alas, I’m neither a neuroscientist or psychologist, but this phenomenon is fascinating and exploring these unifying and dividing aspects of a purely visual inception is something underlying much of my work.
Commissions
I do undertake commissions of both photography and drawing. I have my own studio space and equipment for photography and I can draw from either supplied reference photos or I can take specific photos for a drawing. Due to the time taken to complete a drawing (10 – 30 hrs spread over weeks) I generally do not draw from “life”.
Do not hesitate to get in touch if you are interested in commissioning a piece, email : graeme@gwhyte.co.uk please include as much information as possible including medium, size, subject, style, any required deadlines.
Contact
If you would like to get in touch, please email me : graeme@gwhyte.co.uk