Will Nourse is the Digital & Photography Artist Spotlight winning artist for the month of August 2018. He is an Amesbury, Massachusetts based landscape photographer who uses color and texture to bring his outdoor experiences to life.

Will’s Solo Art Exhibition will be featured on the website for the month of August 2018. The gallery will promote Will and his work on the Fusion Art website, in Fusion Art’s Artsy.net Gallery, individual online press releases to hundreds of outlets, email blasts to over 2000 collectors, galleries, buyers and art professionals, in online event calendars, art news websites and through the gallery’s extensive social media outlets.  Fusion Art’s objective is to promote the Artist Spotlight winning artists, worldwide, to art professionals, gallerists, collectors and buyers.

Please read Will’s Biography and Artist Statement below as he describes his history, inspiration and process in his own words. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see his exhibition.

If you are interested in purchasing any of these award-winning pieces, or to see more of Will’s work, please visit his website.

Also, please visit Fusion Art’s YouTube Channel to see Will’s Solo Art Exhibition Video.

Thank you to all the artists who participated in the Artist Spotlight competition and congratulations to Will and the other Artist Spotlight winning artists.

Will Nourse’s Biography

Will Nourse is a landscape photographer known for his use of color and texture to bring his outdoor experiences to life.

He has been an avid photographer for almost twenty years, and his work reflects a lifetime of hiking, backpacking, climbing, skiing and sailing, all of which have given him a deep appreciation for the wonders of the natural world.

He was recently a featured artist in the exhibition ‘Expeditions: From Iceland to the Gobi’ at the Paula Estey Gallery, Newburyport, MA.

He resides in Amesbury, MA with his wife, daughter, two Wheaten Terriers and two cats.

Will Nourse’s Artist Statement

The opportunity to spend time in wild places is increasingly precious in our modern society. Seeing fog form in Yosemite Valley, witnessing the power of a storm at the beach, meditating on a sunset in the Rocky Mountains or feeling insignificant beneath the brilliance of the Milky Way on a clear night are activities that fewer and fewer people in the world take the time to, and are able to, experience. 

While there are an ever-increasing number of photographers, there are far fewer landscape artists who express themselves through photography. As Galen Rowell wrote ‘Well-executed photos of familiar scenes predictably fill up months of Sierra Club and Audubon calendar and put bread on the table of the chosen photographer, but the question a dedicated nature photographer should be asking is, “Do I want to be a content provider or a visual artist?” Rowell, and contemporary landscape photographers such as Alister Benn, Ryan Dyar and Rafael Rojas have all strongly influenced how I think about the artistic process of creating images, both in the field and in the digital darkroom.

Traveling to the wild and returning with images that capture the essence of a place and the emotion that it evokes is what I do as a visual artist.  This may be a grand landscape in the mountains, a storm-wracked shore or a peaceful sunset over a lake, but in each image distilling that essence and communicating it to the viewer is my objective.  I am often drawn, as well, to strong, graphic elements in natural images, capturing line, color or texture in natural scenes – this may be in the fractal nature of mountain shapes, newly formed ice on a puddle or contrasting light and shadow on a dune.

The images presented here are a selection from three trips to Iceland taken between July 2016 and September 2017.  The Icelandic landscape is incredible – evocative of alien worlds, and relatively unpopulated, despite the ever-increasing influx of tourists.   Trying to capture the wild spirit of the place, the intensity of the weather and the moods the environment provokes has become a long-term project, particularly as elements such as the glaciers continues to retreat.

Part of the challenge and reward of photography is capturing that ephemeral moment and sharing the experience with the viewer.  In landscape and nature photography, that might be first light on a mountainside, the patterns of foam on water or the layering of clouds over a landscape, but the intent is the same as that of a portrait or even a travel snapshot: ‘this is what I saw and how I felt – experience it with me.’

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