#dedejohnston

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Images from Photo London last week at Somerset House. We exhibited photographs by Harry Cory Wright, Rick Giles, Jane Hilton, Dede Johnston and Gina Soden. We hope everyone who made it down to the fair enjoyed it as much as we did!

[elevenfineart]

Northern Vermont, where artist Dede Johnston grew up, has played a central role in regards to her artistic formation. Alpine landscapes are a central theme in her photographic works that show a fascination with abstract forms created by the light and shadows encompassing the snow covered world.

Johnston’s alpine landscapes reveal an influence from the Eastern aesthetic principle of seeking beauty and mystery in dim light. The different shadows that create soft and delicate forms, in fact, make her alpine landscapes suggestive and mysterious.

Johnston’s photos work as a visual example of Japanese novelist Jun'ichirō Tanizaki’s idea of half-darkness as a site of peace, repose and contemplation where ‘immutable tranquility holds sway’.

Dede Johnston’s photographic works  ‘Glacier I’ and ‘Mt. Vallon’ have been realised using a Nikon D800 and will be featured in Eleven’s ‘Christmas Salon’ which will be on from 2nd December, to 9th January.