Elisabeth Feryn: Photographer
Elisabeth Feryn has been a professional photographer for the past 25 years. Her career has included commercial work and theatre photography, as well as pursuing her own artistic practice. She has worked in Europe and North America, with clients as diverse as Loreena McKennitt, Timothy Findlay, the Stratford Festival Theatre, the Shaw Festival and the Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area (CAFKA). Elisabeth has shown her photo-based artwork at the Grand Theatre, London, at Gallery 96, Stratford, and at Ryerson University in Toronto. She was recently commissioned to create ten large images for the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo. Elisabeth works out of her home studio in New Hamburg.
Growing up in a rural setting, Elisabeth Feryn inherently developed an agricultural perspective on life: nature could be taken for granted. Since then, she has discovered the delicate balance of the natural world and its unending capacity to rejuvenate a tired and disgruntled soul.
Much like a painter constructs onto canvas his unique interpretations of the world, a photographer, in similar fashion, captures then alters through post-production a reality which reflects his own visions.
Filtered through the eyes of her own experiences, and with a little help from Photoshop, Feryn has manipulated the images of nature to suit herself. |
