Channelling Hilma

— a set of abstract photographs taken with a macro lens of a series of impressionistic watercolour painting I created.

Background

Hilma af Klint was a Swedish abstract painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her work was largely unknown at the time, but has since been discovered and has revealed her as one of the earliest major abstract artists in art history. This is a sad but important demonstration of female artists not gaining recognition for their talents because they are women.

These images are a response to a a brief during my Diploma of Visual Arts where we were asked to ‘Channel Hilma af Klint’. As her work includes a body of watercolours, I decided to siphon her mysticism through this medium and connect it via my 105mm macro lens. I was looking for moments of interest and elements of interaction, here’s what I found…