Michael Stringer and Laura-Gray Street
Michael Stringer Artist Statement
I am a typical Pisces. I enjoy painting, especially in oils but I am not very good at drawing. I have a passion for photography, taking about 3000 images a month. I am currently re-photographing my collection of Two Tree Island Diatoms, now that I have acquired a new light source – a blue LED. I love with a passion, the wonderful designs and colours of diatoms which, to my mind, are God’s most beautiful creation.
I tend to use my camera as a diary input device, recording my observations and, as a result, they tend to be personal images. I am building up a wild life record – plant and bird – of Two Tree Island. Beyond the island, I keep a record of landscape images, butterflies, flowers ( domestic and wild ), birds and bugs, in the wild or in the local Zoos.