Cyane B. Lowden Biography
Cyane Lowden began her career in photography in 1979 as a free lance
photographer working mainly as a photojournalist. She has been the staff
photographer at the Science Museum of Virginia since 1981, working in
public relations and multi-media production.
Inspired by a showing of some of Alfred Stieglitz’s smaller landscape
prints with their etching-like qualities, Lowden began creating photo
“etchings” in her own style in 1984. “I am interested in the empty
spaces within the scenes of a composition,” she explains, “and I
particularly like working with the atmosphere – the silence of space.”
Her fine art photographs focus primarily on landscapes and seascapes.
She has studied photographic techniques both independently and at
workshops in Maine and Virginia.
Lowden uses an elderly Leica rangefinder- “because their lenses are
superb and the camera leaves nearly everything up to me” – and a series
of toning techniques on matte paper to produce her delicate,
antique-appearing prints. She also includes a light touch of watercolor
and pencil in some of her photographs.
To quote noted Native American poet Renee Bozarth: “The small plot of
ground on which you were born cannot be expected to stay forever the
same. Earth changes and home becomes different places.” The places which
Lowden returns to again and again in her work change; they cannot be
expected to stay forever the same.
In addition to Blue Heron Gallery, her work has been included in a
number of exhibitions and several private and public collections. Her
work can be also be seen at the White Canvas in Richmond, VA and The
Lexington Art Gallery in Lexington, VA.
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