SUNFLOWERS

Tournesol de Bradford

Sunflower

This is my version of Van Gogh’s sunflowers! These sunflowers were grown in my back garden during 2011, which was a reasonable year for growing flowers, and hence I felt justified at calling it Tournesol de Bradford!

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Sunflowers - Multiple

Multiple sunflower A3 prints, the flowers and vases were painted with UV paints, and arranged to show the variable visual effects, which can be obtained by illumination with UV lights and dimmable tungsten lighting used for the collage pictures. The picture is the same size as the stamp collages, (1.22m x 1.625m). The UV-painted vases have an apparent 3-D effect when viewed totally under UV conditions.

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The range of optical effects the picture was photographed under the following conditions for the slideshow sequence:

UV light + tungsten light (100% full power)
UV light + tungsten light (75% full power)
UV light + tungsten light (40% full power)
UV light only

About The Artist

Bradford born scientist-turned-artist and novelist, Dr Keith Edmondson, showcases his recent artwork with a UV theme and its applications, to a wider audience.

After many years earning a ‘crust’ at the art of science he’s venturing, for him, into unknown territory applying a little science into art for a change. As a silver surfer of the Beach Boys’ era he started musing, as you eventually do, Wouldn’t It Be Nice to try something completely different? So far it’s been Fun, Fun, Fun and has been getting Good Vibrations from some quarters recently.

God Only Knows how it will end up but if you’ve lasted so far you might chance looking at The 63 Steppes novel, ‘cos You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet!