Featured artist
India Blake
New Jersey, USA
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Specialty Categories
Photography - Landscape/Seascape
Title: The Sand Path
Medium: Print on paper with white matting and a black matte wood frame Size: 30.5” x 23.5” Price: $250 |
Title: Costa Rican Sunset
Medium: Print on paper with white matting and a black matte wood frame Size: 39” x 20” Price: $300 |
Title: Nantucket Dusk
Medium: Print on paper with light blue matting and a black matte wood frame Size: 18.35” x 13” Price: $125 |
Photography - Travel
Title: Venice In July
Medium: Print on paper with white matting and a custom wood frame Size: 37” x 27” Price: $250 |
Title: Afternoon In Siasconset
Medium: Print on paper with white matting and a black matte wood frame Size: 31.5” x 25.5” Price: $250 |
Title: City Of Orange Roofs
Medium: Print on paper with white matting and a brown wood frame Size: 20.5” x 27” Price: $175 |
Photography - Animal
Title: The Vigilante
Medium: Print on paper with white matting and a rustic wood frame Size: 27.5” x 20.5” Price: $150 |
Title: Deep Breath
Medium: Print on paper with white matting and a black matte wood grain frame Size: 27” x 20” Price: $150 |
Title: Smiling Cougar
Medium: Print on paper with white matting and a white wood frame Size: 22” x 28” Price: $175 |
Artist Statement/Bio
For as long as I can remember I’ve always needed room to breathe; to reflect, to feel the physical space around me, which then allows me to feel the intellective and emotional space around me. I grew up in an over-populated and stimulating environment within the walls of my family’s home. Even though we resided in generous living quarters, there was a lack of space and feeling of quiet: which was taken away by the continuous comings and goings of people. Whether it was for work or friends of my parents or the repairman fixing the same thing that he didn’t finish the week or month or year prior, it always seemed to eat away at what I saw as precious and much needed room to simply just be, to breath!
Therefore, in my landscape photography, I am most attracted by sprawling and expansive natural habitats. Perhaps a house or two in an isolated and dramatic setting. I relish the feeling of being able to look for miles down a beach or in the Moors of Nantucket and not see another living soul, except, of course, the animals that belong to that habitat. It gives me great pleasure to see them living their life; which I try my best to observe as a non-invasive entity in their domain.
My other love for landscape photography is the light, how complex it can be and how it can change an environment so completely. Being able to capture that in a photograph is a defining moment for me. It is an imperative component of the story I am telling.
Life is chaotic in so many ways, a thousand layers interweaving simultaneously. Finding that sense of peace and strength in being alone in the vastness of nature while telling a story through my photographs sustains my soul.
Recent Exhibitions:
"Miami Meets Milano" Art Basel, Miami Beach, Florida - December 4rd - December 8th, 2019
"Visions" Anima Mundi Festival Exhibition, Venice, Italy - October 3rd - November 24th, 2019
"LIGHT AND SPACE" Palazzo Boncompagni, Arpino, Italy - August 4th - August 25th, 2019
"Nature In Focus" Blooming Grove Inn, Ewing, NJ, May 30th - June 25th, 2019
Conception Arts Show, NYC, May 9th, 2019
The Present Day Club, Princeton, New Jersey November 2018 - January 2019
Gala Awards, 5th Biennial - Location TBD, Europe, November 2018
LIGHT AND SPACE, Palazzo Leti Sansi, Spoleto, Italy, June 30- August 23, 2018
LIGHT AND SPACE, Hotel Piram, Rome, Italy, June 22-28, 2018
"The World Through My Eyes" - Gallery Valid Foto, Barcelona, Spain, April 2018
"Landscapes and Lighthouses of Nantucket" - The Nest YARD Gallery Geneva, Switzerland, July 2014
"The Heart of the West" - Art Gallery Mentana, Florence, Italy, November 2013
"The Heart of the West" - Art Loggia Sedil Dominova, Sorrento, Italy, November 2013
"The Heart of the West" - Witttgenstein Haus, Vienna, Austria, November 2013
"Contrasts" - Fleming Street Gallery, Key West, Florida, January-February 2013
"Nantucket" - Gallery 14, Hopewell, New Jersey, October-November 2012
"The Heart of the West" - Art Gallery Dobrich, Dobrich, Bulgaria, August 2012
"By India Blake" - Old Spouter Gallery, Nantucket, Massachusetts, July 2012
"India Blake" - Fleming Street Gallery, Key West, Florida, March 2012
Awards:
Finalist, Charles Dodgson Black & White Award, 2017
International Artist Award, Spoleto Arte, 2018
Third Place in Fall Open 2012, Art Way Gallery in Princeton
Semi-finalist in Nature’s Best Photography Windland Awards 2012
Second Place in the Scenery category of the WildNewJersey.tv second Annual Photography Contest
Bronze Award in nature category at the International Loupe Awards 2011
Bronze Award in nature category at the International Loupe Awards 2010
New Jersey Federation of Camera Clubs- Travel Pictorial Hopewell Township Photography Contest-1st place
Umbra International photography awards finalist
For as long as I can remember I’ve always needed room to breathe; to reflect, to feel the physical space around me, which then allows me to feel the intellective and emotional space around me. I grew up in an over-populated and stimulating environment within the walls of my family’s home. Even though we resided in generous living quarters, there was a lack of space and feeling of quiet: which was taken away by the continuous comings and goings of people. Whether it was for work or friends of my parents or the repairman fixing the same thing that he didn’t finish the week or month or year prior, it always seemed to eat away at what I saw as precious and much needed room to simply just be, to breath!
Therefore, in my landscape photography, I am most attracted by sprawling and expansive natural habitats. Perhaps a house or two in an isolated and dramatic setting. I relish the feeling of being able to look for miles down a beach or in the Moors of Nantucket and not see another living soul, except, of course, the animals that belong to that habitat. It gives me great pleasure to see them living their life; which I try my best to observe as a non-invasive entity in their domain.
My other love for landscape photography is the light, how complex it can be and how it can change an environment so completely. Being able to capture that in a photograph is a defining moment for me. It is an imperative component of the story I am telling.
Life is chaotic in so many ways, a thousand layers interweaving simultaneously. Finding that sense of peace and strength in being alone in the vastness of nature while telling a story through my photographs sustains my soul.
Recent Exhibitions:
"Miami Meets Milano" Art Basel, Miami Beach, Florida - December 4rd - December 8th, 2019
"Visions" Anima Mundi Festival Exhibition, Venice, Italy - October 3rd - November 24th, 2019
"LIGHT AND SPACE" Palazzo Boncompagni, Arpino, Italy - August 4th - August 25th, 2019
"Nature In Focus" Blooming Grove Inn, Ewing, NJ, May 30th - June 25th, 2019
Conception Arts Show, NYC, May 9th, 2019
The Present Day Club, Princeton, New Jersey November 2018 - January 2019
Gala Awards, 5th Biennial - Location TBD, Europe, November 2018
LIGHT AND SPACE, Palazzo Leti Sansi, Spoleto, Italy, June 30- August 23, 2018
LIGHT AND SPACE, Hotel Piram, Rome, Italy, June 22-28, 2018
"The World Through My Eyes" - Gallery Valid Foto, Barcelona, Spain, April 2018
"Landscapes and Lighthouses of Nantucket" - The Nest YARD Gallery Geneva, Switzerland, July 2014
"The Heart of the West" - Art Gallery Mentana, Florence, Italy, November 2013
"The Heart of the West" - Art Loggia Sedil Dominova, Sorrento, Italy, November 2013
"The Heart of the West" - Witttgenstein Haus, Vienna, Austria, November 2013
"Contrasts" - Fleming Street Gallery, Key West, Florida, January-February 2013
"Nantucket" - Gallery 14, Hopewell, New Jersey, October-November 2012
"The Heart of the West" - Art Gallery Dobrich, Dobrich, Bulgaria, August 2012
"By India Blake" - Old Spouter Gallery, Nantucket, Massachusetts, July 2012
"India Blake" - Fleming Street Gallery, Key West, Florida, March 2012
Awards:
Finalist, Charles Dodgson Black & White Award, 2017
International Artist Award, Spoleto Arte, 2018
Third Place in Fall Open 2012, Art Way Gallery in Princeton
Semi-finalist in Nature’s Best Photography Windland Awards 2012
Second Place in the Scenery category of the WildNewJersey.tv second Annual Photography Contest
Bronze Award in nature category at the International Loupe Awards 2011
Bronze Award in nature category at the International Loupe Awards 2010
New Jersey Federation of Camera Clubs- Travel Pictorial Hopewell Township Photography Contest-1st place
Umbra International photography awards finalist
