About The Artist

Athalie Taylor is a photographer and digital artist. She was born and grew up in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. She moved to Tasmania in 1970 and has called this island home since. Her initial training was in the art/textile area but more recently she embraced photography leading to her passion, digital art. Athalie has had work in recent exhibitions in Northern Tasmania including her first solo exhibition in 2015. The camera is her tool, her paintbrush, her pen, her pencil. She is often found moving it, twisting it, turning it, bending it’s will to create the beginnings of her journey. Next comes the selection, the adding and subtracting, the refinement to reveal the essence of the design, her thoughts, her idea. Athalie chooses subjects, often simple in concept, looks for pattern, shape, line, textures and colour. She experiments with and pushes her camera to its limits to create the initial stage of each piece before she takes the images into various post processing programs to explore the possibilities, develop the idea and finally hone the work. Athalie finds material for her abstract pieces in very many places in the urban and natural environment. Athalie Taylor April 2016