Raymond Henry St. Arnaud

Raymond St. Arnaud, "Flower 7412", 2009, inkjet mounted to acrylic[1]
Raymond St. Arnaud, "Hibiscus #1", 2009, inkjet mounted to acrylic[2]
Raymond St. Arnaud, "Pre-Millennium Landscape #43", 2010, inkjet mounted to acrylic[3]
Raymond St. Arnaud, "Pre-Millennium Landscape #62", 2010, inkjet mounted to acrylic[4]

Raymond Henry St. Arnaud was born on June 24, 1942 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is a Canadian photographer who centres his photography on a series of personal obsessions often using close-ups with extreme lighting as his preferred technique.

Early life

Raymond St. Arnaud grew up in Northern Alberta and became interested in photography during high school. However, his family did not have the resources to allow him to pursue a hobby or career in the field thus cutting short his early ambition.

Since photography always remained an interest of St. Arnaud's, he took a job at his local National Film Board Office. During his time there, he took films home by the caseload and watched them – going through the entire library in just a year and intensifying his obsession with photography. He subsequently enrolled in a two-year program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. He also holds a BA with a Fine Arts Major, from the University of Alberta.

Work

St. Arnaud has never had the traditional career of a working photographer – during most of his life, art, painting and photography have been more of a hobby or preoccupation. While he has had occasional paying photography jobs, he has almost always earned an income independently of photography.

He would often take on jobs for a few months at a time, then leave and use the money he had earned to pursue his next photography project. At one point in his life, he left his job to take a series of landscape photos – fifteen of which ended up in Canada's National Gallery.[5]

When he moved to [Victoria, British Columbia], he started working for Camosun College[6] on a temporary basis and stayed for 20 years.

Raymond St. Arnaud's work has been included in 150 exhibitions since 1969 and he has had 15 solo exhibitions. In December 2010, he was included in the PrintedArt collection[7] and has since then been one of its most prolific artists.

Photographic style

Raymond St. Arnaud's recent work is decidedly deviating from more purist photography and he is freely using digital tools to sharpen and enhance his imagery. His elaborate work on flower close-ups with intense lighting has brought him international recognition as both a graphic artist and photographer. His series "Reflections: Pre-Millennium Landscapes" focuses on antique cars and reflections seen by the camera on close-ups of the polished metal. He is part of a movement that is categorized as "Visual Artists using Photography".

In choosing a subject, Raymond St. Arnaud tends to focus on a single idea and then fully immerse himself in it for an extended period of time. He has an elaborate body of work for each subject he has pursued.

Exhibitions and publications

Raymond St. Arnaud has published 14 books and has shown his work at over 150 exhibitions. A short list:

Notable Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

Online Exhibitions

Books

Other Publications

Organizations

References

  1. ↑ Flower 7412
  2. ↑ Hibiscus #1
  3. ↑ Pre-Millennium Landscape #43
  4. ↑ Pre-Millennium Landscape #62
  5. ↑ National Gallery of Canada
  6. ↑ Camosun College
  7. ↑ Raymond St. Arnaud in the PrintedArt Collection
  8. ↑ Outside the Box
  9. ↑ Helen Smith Gallery
  10. ↑ Southern Light Gallery showing Outside the Box
  11. ↑ GILT
  12. ↑ Raymond St. Arnaud at SigGraph 2003
  13. ↑ metaLphor Exhibition
  14. ↑ On the Advent of the Blue at Theater of the Mind
  15. ↑ Eye Appeal
  16. ↑ Homage
  17. ↑ Beecher Center Digital Art Competition 2001
  18. ↑ Art Incognito
  19. ↑ ASCI Digital 2002
  20. ↑ Saatchi Gallery
  21. ↑ Collection X
  22. ↑ Local Artists
  23. ↑ Adobe Photographer Directory
  24. ↑ 1998 International Art Contest
  25. ↑ Artoteque
  26. ↑ 2Modern
  27. ↑ Tom R Chambers
  28. ↑ Evenlyn de R. McMann: Biographical Index of Artists in Canada (University of Toronto)
  29. ↑ Focus Magazine
  30. ↑ Digital Art Guild entry on Raymond St. Arnaud
  31. ↑ Selling in the US in Opus Framing & Art
  32. ↑ New Trail
  33. ↑ Will the Real Alberta Please Stand Up?
  34. ↑ Victoria Island Illustrator Society
  35. ↑ Celeste Prize Network

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