Dave Tilton

Technique

The technique I developed draws on my experience with electronic music and is modeled after sampling techniques used in the creation and synthesis of sounds for electronic music composition.

Using a digital camera, I sample the colors and patterns of light and then digitally process, synthesize, and blend many hundreds of these samples to create my images. I frequently combine and manipulate a set of samples to develop ‘instruments’ (i.e. complex textures, colors, forms and marks) that are then used in a composition. These instruments are sometimes incorporated in related compositions to establish consistency within a thematic set. The results are complex works that employ a painterly aesthetic to suggest a world filled with mood, impression and sumptuous beauty.

Each work is an original, not a reproduction of art created in another medium, and is printed in my studio using archival pigment ink on museum-quality canvas or paper.