Hampton Cameron | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

Capturing light, its intensity, its variations, and its transparency are the primary focus of Cameron Hampton's work. For 25 years now, the artist has been meticulously studying the effects of light on the colors that surround us, the volumes, the architectures, the faces or the materials that constitute our visual environment. Particularly fond of the Netherlands and Amsterdam for its canals, its changing lights and their reflections in the water, the artist strolls, wanders, gets lost in search of the ideal moment from which the image will be born.\nCapturing at first the forms on paper or through the lens of her camera, Cameron Hampton then uses gouache, pastels and watercolor, combining and superimposing watercolors, always more diluted and always more faithful to the light and its subtle nuances. She then constitutes or reconstitutes a reality from snippets and pieces chosen, picked, elected, and sorted. Considering the world as an immense puzzle, the artist composes her paintings by conjugating the forms, piece by piece, end by end to reach a plural, reflected, constructed whole. Observation, contemplation, patient, rigorous constitute the base of this fragile step which tends to capture the evanescent. The pieces chosen and reinterpreted by the artist are interlocked, linked, and call out to one another, and in the end constitute a great and singular composition, dense but unfurled, luminous and whole.