Buy Art Online: Feng Shui Photography

// June 23rd, 2010 // b-loud // b-uncut

David Lorenz Winston is a fine art photographer based in Talent, Oregon. An amazing photographer who joined our art community in March, David enjoys pickleball, piano. walking, free-form dancing, travel, social networking and photographing the local landscape. As you’ll see in his deeply soothing photographs David captures the stillness in nature and surprise in the ordinary. His imagery is about discovery and takes the viewer on his refreshing journey discovering peaceful, isolated moments. Our leading crowdsourced commission art service at b-uncut means you can buy photography online in his clean, distinguished style from his ever observing eye. Read the interview below and get to know the artist that is David Lorenz Winston.

What was your very first artwork?

In third grade I recall using black and brown crayons to bring out the tactile quality of a large tree trunk. I had no idea what I was doing, but it made me feel great.

Describe the piece you love the most—why?

There are so many pieces that I love, that I would be hard pressed to come up with one. Solitude is the image that I’m most grateful for finding as it propelled my career as a fine art photographer. I discovered it on a foggy morning after a light snowfall in the horse country, west of Philadelphia. It was a magical moment, a zigzag fence leading into a beautifully formed bare tree and then into nothingness as the fog took over. I had no idea at the time that this image would one day be on posters, greeting cards, magazines and more, that it would touch the lives of so many all over the world.

What are your methods? Your inspirations?

Originally I was inspired by the street photography of my teacher, George Krause and also that of Henri Cartier Bresson. As I started to show my work, I began to move more toward the landscape and to use color. My inspiration was the great color photographer, Ernst Haas. I continue to love both street photography and landscape photography. I use a digital SLR camera to capture my images and then use Photoshop in subtle ways to bring out my work. Its very much a two tiered process, capturing the image and then using digital processing to bring it to another level.

What did it take to make it to where you are now?
I started out doing art and craft fairs from Maine to Florida. They were both a great education and at the same time, a wonderful means for me to begin selling my work to the public. They taught me a lot about presenting and marketing my work. From there, I worked with corporate clients who used my work in their offices as wall decor and with art consultants who sold to healthcare facilities, law offices, among others. My work was also sold through stock photography companies. In 1999, Bruce McGaw Graphics accepted three images for posters, one of which, Solitude (mentioned above), has had unusual mass appeal and continues to do well.
I have also been involved with internet marketing, starting a weekly photoletter, archived on The Winston Weekly blog. I started the photoletter in January, 2007 with a list of 36 and over three plus years it has grown to over 1000. I find this to be a wonderful way to make contact and to make occasional sales. It delivers my latest work
on a regular and predictable basis keeping me in the awareness of many. It has also helped me with clients who also see what I’m up to. This has also led to new work.

Do you make a living from your artwork?
Yes

Who has helped you along the way?
Art show promoters and companies that have published my work, including, UNICEF, The National Wildlife Federation, Bruce McGaw Graphics, Pomegranate, Palm Press,
and Hallmark.

What 5 artists (dead or alive) would you invite for the ultimate dinner party?
Henri Cartier Bresson, Ernst Haas, Lewis Hine, Sebastiao Salgado, Minor White


Your favourite curse?
Chocolate

Your biggest (albeit endearing) flaw?
Forgetfulness

Qualities a woman needs to seduce you and the flaws that will repel you?
Good listener, Intelligent, Confident, Open to new ideas and charming.
Poor listener, talking too much, poor sense of feng shui

Your parents advice you should have followed, but didn’t?
Save your money

Your idea of the perfect weekend?
Traveling to the Oregon Coast, finding an amazingly lit landscape which I totally take in through my heart and eye, having a wonderful dinner with my partner and finding another amazing landscape the next day that blows me away.

Who would you chose to rule the world?
The Dalai Lama

Favourite ice-cream?
mint chocolate chip

Where do you see yourself in…..
One month?
Creating short videos

One Year?
Doing less and accomplishing more

One Decade?
Doing nothing and accomplishing everything

  • Sandra_rojas2000
    I would like to sell art and love objects and writings in your co. Could you be interested?
  • Frank & Trish
    Cool comments in interview, David Do you know the three rules of chocolate? Frank & Trish
  • Diannegg
    David, you are marvelous, and I'm so pleased to have had the honor to make your acquaintence. Your photos continue to adorn my walls and inspire me every time I view them.

    Hopefully, we will meet again in the near future. Please feel free to visit us in Olympia, WA if you're ever in these parts. We have magnificant brown and grey landscapes/people/objects to photograph right here in your northern neighbor - WA! Be happy and be well. Dianne Grossman
  • Linda Griffith
    In a culture where the esoteric and/or inaccessible has so long dominated the appreciation and acquisition of art, I think that David has definitely had the courage to take the path less traveled. His vision is complex and profoundly spiritual, from which he tirelessly makes accessible both the purity of Universal Consciousness and the fragility of the human ego in it's relationship to the Greater. His work seeks out the edge of an abyss and teeters there, evoking both the sublime and the horrific, yet never does he imbue his images with anger over this half-assed state of the human condition. I've been following David Winston for the last ten years and continue to suspect that he is among the greatest of living American photographers. That he utilizes poster and product distribution to make his images affordably collectible is, in my opinion, a brilliant sleight-of-hand maneuver. There is absolutely nothing mundane nor fashionable about his photographs. They are painfully astute and aesthetically uncompromising, yet he has managed to get "Solitude," for example, onto the walls of a largely tasteless society where it's disquieting expression of alienation is one with it's profound beauty. If I could, I would purchase one of every print he as ever made and signed with the certainty that his humble marketing methodology will, one day, suddenly be appreciated in the broader and rightful context of his artistic genius.

    Great interview-- thank you, David, for you gift to the planet.

    Linda Griffith
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