Penelope Duns

"I have always been struck by the beauty and magic in everyday things. "

Colour and light, shapes and lines, are the essence of the art of my photography, a reflection through glass, the complex structure of a surface, the play of light and shadow, colours that sing together in harmony, shapes that form when things come together or are viewed a certain way.  

I always try to express my feelings about the world through my photographs, to reach not just the physical but also to express the metaphysical, the fundamental nature of the subject and how it relates to its environment and to me, the observer. 

All my life I've created stuff, paintings, ceramics, sculpture, computer programs, and more recently web pages. Digital images have always interested me, but I didn't take photography seriously until the beginning of 2004.

Awards:

August 2007 first prize in the triptych competition sponsored by the  British Professional Photography Association, Society of Wedding & Portrait Photographers in association with the Image File.

In August 2005 I won the prestigious Photoplate award in Belgium.

Exhibitions:

"Visions Insolites" 27th January - 5th May 2006  A one-man exhibition of 60 photographs at Zoom Gallery in the European quarter of Brussels.

Salve Mater Foto Festival in Leuven 29 april - 7 may 2006

"L'âme du Vin"  Brussels Miroir club exhibition October 2006 Centre Culturel de Jette

I hope you enjoy looking at my pictures as much as I enjoyed making them.