Violet Suller

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It's All About You!

A portrait session with me will begin when we start to talk, exchange ideas, share visions. From here, I create an inspirations board to share with you - I find images or ideas inspired by our conversation and ask for your feedback - what you like about the board, and equally importantly, what you dislike!

I plan my sessions in the same way that an author sets the scene for a story, or a painter does the research to enable the vision in his mind to be translated onto the scene on canvas..

Sometimes, I can create everything I want to produce in one place, other times, just as the Old Masters would search for a background, paint that and leave a space for their subject, I may take photographs of parts of the image I see in my mind's eye and merge the individual images to create the whole scene.

My photography has been influenced by the Fairy stories and Nursery Rhymes read to me in my early childhood., by the theatre I was brought up to enjoy and participate in as an older child and teenager, and by the paintings I have grown to love as an adult.

A Picture Paints A Thousand Words...

My portrait sessions are designed to produce images in a classic style, so what better way to record them than the classic print! A physical copy to be lived with, rather than just a digital image, shared when the image is fresh, but soon to be left on a memory device somewhere, looked at when you remember.

The other advantage of print over digital storage is it's longevity -we use specialist printers who all guarantee their work will look as good in the future as it does the day it is printed - a digital copy is subject to the vagaries of technology - possibly inaccessible in a short time as technology marches on, ever faster.