I'm pleased to mention that my Parrot tulips series has won another award!
]]>I'm pleased to mention that my Parrot tulips series has won another award!
They have won Bronze in the TIFA 2023 Professional Nature / Flowers category.
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I am very pleased to mention that for the second year running I have won a first prize in the prestigious IPA Awards! My Flower Portraits series has won first prize in the Professional Nature/Flowers in this year's International Photography Awards
Created over this summer my flower portraits are part of a wider on-going project, all about observing nature's incredible details in close-up. The closer you get, the more you see.
When you magnify flowers you make heroes of them and appreciate them in a new way. Some of these flowers are only 20mm wide. When blended from many shots at different focal points I can achieve full depth of field in a way that is otherwise impossible when using a macro lens. Detail, form, texture and colour are emphasised in an almost hyper-realistic way. I like to think that these elements combine to create different personalities. This is why I call them portraits.
Size featured: 30" Large (limited edition of 15 each) plus frames.
“In nature, light creates the colour. In the picture, colour creates the light.” - Hans Hofmann
Adding art to your home is a great way to inject colour, vibrancy, and personality into your living space. Art can transform a room, evoking emotion and creating ambience. Whether you prefer paintings, sculptures, prints, or photographs, here are some tips on how to effectively use art to add colour
Art is a powerful tool for adding life and colour to your home. By carefully selecting and displaying artworks that resonate with your style and personality, you can create a visually captivating and inspiring living space that reflects your unique tastes and passions.
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A beautiful image in a frame on your wall is not just decoration. Framed pictures are like windows. They are aesthetic focal points to both look at and look through. Visitors will admire them, and they will enhance the positive energy within your home or workspace. They will last a lifetime and will eventually become old friends.
Your home is your sanctuary, a space where you can express your personality and create an ambience that resonates with your inner self. While furniture, colours, and lighting play vital roles in home decor, one element that often surpasses them all is art. The transformative power of art can be profound:
1. Continuity
You will never regret the decision to invest in collecting art for your everyday space. You may move house, redecorate or change your furniture, but your artworks will remain a constant in your life. To begin with you will enjoy admiring your new acquisition, with an inner glow! Over time it will become a valued and constant part of the fabric of your environment, perhaps a reminder of a significant occasion, and always there to help promote a reassuring sense of continuity and familiarity.
2. Self expression
Your choice of art will express your own unique tastes and interests and showcase your style. Whether you prefer bold and vibrant abstract pieces or serene landscapes, the art you choose reflects your personality and who you are. You will personalise your living space and create an environment that truly feels like home.
3. Inspiration
Art can spark creativity and inspire new ideas. Hanging artwork in your home provides a constant source of inspiration, encouraging you to think outside the box and explore your own creativity. Immersion in art will help you to focus and go with the flow.
4. Well-being
Art can have a beneficial impact on our emotions and overall well-being. Certain colours and compositions can evoke specific moods, offering a powerful tool for creating the desired ambience in your home. Whether you seek tranquillity, joy, or a sense of serenity, a carefully selected artwork can influence your mood and sense of well-being. Nature-inspired art, for example, can be calming, while vibrant colour or abstract pieces can invigorate and energise a room. There are no rules here. Just go with what feels right for you.
Art has the power to transform a house into a home, creating a living space that is not only aesthetically appealing but also a meaningful expression of your authentic self.
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I am pleased to mention that my Botanical Opticals series has won first prize in the Professional Fine Art/Abstract Category in this year's International Photography Awards
Size featured: 30" Large (limited edition of 15 each) plus frames.
Find out more about the collection:
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Download on AppleTV. Relax with floral video art.
Pause, focus and relax with MoodlapseTV. A relaxation aid unlike anything you've seen on your TV before.
Or use it as an ever-changing artwork on your TV between shows!
Following Moodlapse for iOS, MoodlapseTV for tvOS is a simple way to promote relaxation via dynamic abstract floral patterns. Immerse yourself in gorgeous 4K time-lapse videos of real flowers blooming as they slowly evolve into colourful kinetic kaleidoscopic patterns. Enhance the experience with soothing 3D Spatial Audio soundscapes mixed in Dolby Atmos.
Music by: Sea Elegy
A real labour of love, these videos are based on over 1200 hours’ worth of my botanical time-lapse photography. For each flower, thousands of high-resolution stills are animated at different speeds to reveal a secret life of flowers that we don’t normally see.
Our modern world constantly bombards us with never-ending distractions and information overload.
So sometimes it just feels good to tap the pause button, and enjoy a quiet moment to ourselves.
MoodlapseTV can help with that. Choose from 12 high-resolution flower videos in beautiful 4K quality, created from over 1200 hours of time-lapse capture. The randomised kaleidoscopic patterns promote a sense of relaxation and wellbeing. These patterns are absorbing and visually stunning. They help us clear the brain fog and focus on something beautiful inspired by Nature.
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Sue is a textile designer who draws on both colour and symmetry when creating her complex patterns.
Did you know about our brains' Reticular Activating System?
Read all about it in her blog post via the link below.
"I loved this show. I loved it so much that one of the prints now hangs at the top of my stairs.
"The images in Platt’s work originate from photographs of individual flowers manipulated into intriguing circular patterns and the work boldly presents itself as unapologetically beautiful; a softly spoken antidote to the noise of so much self-referential and self-conscious contemporary art.
"This is art to be gazed at and art to lose yourself in its ambiguities and visual complexities. Give yourself enough time and you’ll find your own associations in the micro and the macro; planets, whole universes, atomic structures, starbursts, snowflakes, celtic art, mandalas, the primal and the contemporary."
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Being interested in both stills and motion led me to explore the world of botanical time-lapse, which is essentially a stills process that becomes a video in post-production. It is a patient process of photographing plants and flowers over long periods while they grow or bloom. Thousands of high-resolution stills are animated at different speeds to reveal a hidden world and a secret life that we don’t normally see. I started to arrange these images into symmetrical patterns and realised that the effects can be quite mesmerising.
These ideas developed into an interactive iOS relaxation app I have created called Moodlapse. The experience is based on creating beautiful kaleidoscopic videos of flowers blooming combined with soothing ambient binaural soundscapes to help stimulate different brainwave frequencies and promote a sense of well being.
The development of the app led directly to the Botanical Opticals series of high resolution static images now available as beautiful limited edition prints.
Symmetrical kaleidoscopic animations are created by tapping, tilting, or sliding your screen. There are 24 different flowers to choose from. Because the patterns are constantly moving, no two Moodlapse sessions are the same.
I think of time-lapse as a glimpse into the world of slow-time. Our perception of real-time is governed by what we can see going on around us. But there are many natural phenomena, such as plants growing or flowers blooming, that happen too slowly for us to see in real-time. Time-lapse dramatically telescopes a lengthy passage of time to show us what is happening and become more aware of these constant transformations.
One of the key benefits envisaged when creating the app was to allow users to slow down and focus for a few minutes in a mindfully creative way. It is an effective way to unwind and relax and offers a gateway into the potential benefits of mindfulness or meditation practice.
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Cathedral Close, Norwich NR1 4DD
We are excited to announce a multimedia art gallery show for the first two weeks in October in Norwich at the Crypt Gallery in the Close next to the Cathedral. It is a unique art gallery space in a beautiful and historic corner of medieval Norwich.
The show features large exhibition prints of the Botanical Optical static images and an exciting and innovative audiovisual installation by Benedict Braund who will be creating a one-off, sensory immersive experience for all the family using digital projections and other experimental interactive techniques.
The installation features Tim's kaleidoscopic video effects of flowers blooming, combined with soothing 3D binaural soundscapes that work with specific brainwave frequencies for a more relaxing and immersive experience. The show will be a visual and aural treat and should delight adults and children alike.
Tim Platt is a professional photographer and videographer. He has delivered international advertising campaigns for blue-chip companies like Unilever, P&G, Samsung, LG, Britvic and GSK among many others. But he has always combined this with personal work which is most at home in a frame on a wall. He still runs his own studio in central London, although he and his family have now enjoyed living in Norwich for 15 years.
The Botanical Opticals exhibition has evolved from ideas explored during the development of MOODLAPSE - a unique interactive relaxation app for iOS and tvOS created by Tim.
Benedict Braund has had a multifaceted career across the worlds of art, music and performance. Benedict’s band; Braund Reynolds enjoyed national chart success with ‘Rocket’ on Virgin Records, championed by Pete Tong, Thomas Bangalter (Daft Punk) & Fatboy Slim. He and his company Global Overground now embrace pan platform digital experience delivery. He says 'Combining all the technology that’s now so readily available with some lateral thinking, imagination and good, old fashioned stage craft has started up a whole new, super-exciting chapter for us'. He has recently moved to Norwich.
He will also be remastering all audio for the show using 3D spatial audio via state of the art Dolby Atmos™ technology, which will travel around the gallery space via multiple speakers for a truly immersive effect.
Music for the audiovisual installation will be composed by South African composer Derrick Van Heerden, and British composer Sea Elegy.
Van Heerden’s meditation music is designed to stimulate the brainwave frequencies that promote relaxation and wellbeing. ‘I specialise in music that contains epsilon, delta, theta, beta or gamma brainwave frequencies in the form of binaural beats or isochronic tones,’ says Van Heerden.
Sea Elegy is an atmospheric sound creator of ambient, soundscape, drone and electronic audio and music. Originally from the UK, he has resided in East Asia for nearly a decade and is involved in many different audio and video projects including providing themes for well known video games including Resident Evil.
Don't forget to drop in on Dippy the Dinosaur on display in the cathedral when you visit!
For press & media enquiries please contact Liz Hollis: liz@lizhollis.co.uk
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Dates:
1 to 15 October 2021
Venue:
The Crypt Gallery, The Close, Norwich NR1 4DD
Opening hours:
10.30am to 4.30pm
Free entry |
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Exhibition supported by SAAL Digital
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The word symmetry derives from the Greek words for “together in equal measure”.
Like many species on Earth human beings are bilaterally symmetrical creatures, and for evolutionary reasons we are hard-wired to discover and appreciate symmetry in our surroundings.
This probably dates back to a primitive awareness that symmetry denotes meaning and helps us to distinguish meaning from confusion. If our distant ancestors spotted symmetry in the abstract chaos of the jungle it probably meant an animal of some description that either they may have been able to eat, or may have been able to eat them!
Humans have always seen beauty in symmetry, and from the earliest cave paintings it remains integral to our innate aesthetic sense of design. Aristotle the great greek philosopher said of symmetry: “The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness." The use of the word definiteness refers to his mathematical insights but it is no coincidence that throughout the ages and regardless of geography or culture, we have remained as a species both fascinated and gratified by the geometry of symmetry.
Symmetry provides us with a sense of balance, proportion and harmony. It exists everywhere in Nature. The wings of a butterfly are not just symmetrical in shape but in colour and pattern too. The beautiful crystalline form of a single snowflake is perfectly symmetrical. Bees have poor vision but are attracted by pattern and colour so flowers evolved as symmetrical shapes to attract them, as flowers need bees as much as bees need flowers. These marvellous patterns and colours attract us to flowers too, and explains to a great degree why we love them. And why they just make us feel better. It is a deep psychic attraction.
Symmetrical shapes have long been used in meditation practices in order to provide a harmonious focal point that resonates with our innate, biological connection to the simplicity and balance of a symmetrical form.
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