Andre.

Winner of the Valour-art $1000.00 Artist competition.

Congatulations Andre!

Born 1983.

I’m a Free-lance photographer residing in Cape Town South Africa.

Photography; what started out as a hobby quickly turned into something more meaningful as I saw life for the first time intensified through the lens of my camera.  My recent works come from my travels through Africa, where I found that the human soul flourishes when humbled.

“Andre has an excellent eye for capturing unique moments of content - even in the most sorrowful of situations.  -Valour-art -”

Email Andre at: andre@meadowbridge.co.za

Runners up: Robert Furbacher and Jacob Belbin!

Also mentioning these great Artists:

Ilze Coetzee, Sonny Williams, Marta Lapillo, Isaac Bills, Loren Adams, Melvin Harris, SooMin Leong, Mary Catherine Watson, Jason Tweedie, Maryanne Jespersen, Elizabeth McCalellan, Christopher Woldsworth, Kara Bjornstad, Nea Hanscomb, Ralph White, Nancy Teague, Lily Adamczyk, Beata Bloemen, Ione Citrin, Margaret Brown, Virginia T Coleman, David Mills, Peter Kempson, Sona Mirzaei, Danelle Rivas, Sara Iran Nejad, David Francis Barker, Joseph Walsh, Alla Lazebnik, Joseph Kinnebrew, Helen Hetherington, Teresa McCallum, Sylvia Brandt, Rinat Goren, Nadia Van Scalkwyk, Penny Lewin-Hetherington, Thelma Van Rensberg, Isaura Xavier de Campos, Amanda Houchen, Lilla Beningo, Kimberly Wieghat, Tanisha Bhana, Danien Esselen.

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“Van Renselar”:

Winner of the Valour-art members competition 2011…

Van Renselar has travelled extensively. He grew up in South Wales, moving to Little Venice then on to Keston, where he now lives and works.

It is not his aim to represent our surroundings or any particular object, he takes ideas from experiences which are visual, cerebral and emotional in nature. His inspiration can as easily be sparked by lines from a poem, song or  an emotional event. Colour is equally as important as the general design and Van Renselar will spend a  lot of time perfecting the tone of a particular colour, his primary objectives being to establish harmony both in terms of composition and the use of colour.

As Van Renselar says, “I want to make pictures which involve and intrigue the viewer. I take ideas  from around and within me, using intuition and imagination to create a new context. Much of my  work stems from my subconscious, where I see actions, events and ideas as particular images and colours. As some music can take on a different meaning after it has left the composer’s pen, I encourage the viewer to create their own story about the meaning of the picture.”

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION OF WORK

Van Renselar’s work is created from disparate sources such as drawing (either on paper or directly onto screen), photography, painting and scanning.  These separate elements are all collaged together on a computer into a digital file which is then output as a giclee canvas and mounted. Only one giclee will ever be made of each picture. This form of working is sometimes mistakenly called computer generated art – a description Van Renselar rejects. The computer does not generate anything, it is simply a receptacle for collecting the different elements together – collage is a more accurate description.

Contact Van Renselar - email: art@van-renselar.com website: http://www.van-renselar.com/ facebook: facebook.com/vanrenselar twitter twitter.com/#1!/vanrenselar
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