PENNY BROGDEN, the artist:
I started making photographs and drawings in the late sixties, adding painting in the eighties, and ceramic work in the early nineties. In photography, I did studio work alternating with street photography exploring different processes including negative solarization, chemical “painting”, hand-coloring, and cyanotype. I am continuing into the digital realm. In ceramics, I make one of a kind art tiles as well as sculpture. I use the surface of the tile like a small piece of blank drawing paper to create a world within the square format not unlike a photographic frame. I draw on the vast reservoir of art history in attempting to call attention to the enduring beauty of the natural world which is under constant threat now throughout the globe.
p.b. 9/2007
photo: Misako Akimoto, pb with cyanotype alligator