New Year

I'm not making any New Year resolutions; just to continue learning, exploring and experimenting with everything I love and enjoy in life. Resolutions are made at the end of every experience so continuation of lessons I've learned from and focusing on the positive are my ongoing aims from 2012. Everything else will be dealt with as and when. All the Best Dawn x

'The positive are those things that touches and feels warm in your heart' (Dawn Howden)

Surreal Clouds

I was initially inspired to create this surreal cloud series of work by Alfred Stieglitz’, who produced a body of work photographing clouds and in this, included his feelings in an abstract form.  This took me back to when I was a child laying out on the field, looking up at the sky, seeing different forms and using my imagination to create surrealistic worlds. 

Surrealism is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but in a very particular sense, that of the strange and illogical.  (Paul Delvaux)

Reflections Art

The series of work 'Reflections' combines photography with digital painting and techniques to create this body of artwork. The music was created using samples from GarageBand.

It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon (C Joybell)

Essence of Structure

As I lay me down and close my eyes

You appear without invitation

I bid you goodbye, 'begone'

You're not welcome in my thoughts
But still you come.

You challenge me, I challenge you
I've grown, I learn, I live, I'm free
You're conquered and cease to exist
Until you next visit
I no longer fear you. 


Dawn Howden

Winter Videoart/Slideshow

I've composed a few pieces of my still work that I made during the winter period into a videoart/slideshow. The music is Bach's Mass in B minor that I feel fits perfectly with the mood and tone of the piece.

Spoof Intro (Experimental)

I made this video intro a few months ago. It was a spoof, not to be taken seriously, for experimental purposes. No !! I didn't think I was a vampire at all. You know when people play a part in a film, for me, it's the same principles in art.

Winter Tree Series

'Alone with myself the trees bend to caress me, the shade hugs my heart' (Candy Polgar)

I always feel at my happiest and at peace when engrossed in the midst of nature. If only we could think like nature, to destruct only to create something more beautiful. However we humans destroy, obliterate and cause devastation to anyone or anything that stands in our way.  If you're the target of  any form of obliteration why not think as in nature and emerge from the destruction to be something better in terms of beauty as in spirit and human qualities. If all humans inhibited those qualities that make us decent humans, to nourish, protect, look after each other just like nature looks after its own. Then we will continue to flourish and grow just like trees and stand tall and proud in all we have strived to achieve.

'I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion  to his respect for them' (James Russell Lowell)

Trees are very interesting to photograph due to their remarkable form and structure. No two trees are alike forming their own unique properties and qualities just like humans. In this series of work I have tried to capture the intricacies and natural artform. Below are some of the examples from the winter trees series of work that I have created during this period and each piece evokes a different emotion and response from me.  Over the next week I'm planning to create a video art/slideshow of these work's with music, to compliment and to be viewed alongside the still series.

Winter Trees (i)

Winter Trees (iii)

Winter Trees (v)

Winter Trees (vi)

Winter Trees (x)

Winter Trees (xi)

Winter Trees (xii)