Kay
Canavino has been exploring themes of the natural world via fine
art photography for over twenty years. Her original images are
hauntingly beautiful with a mysterious quality; there is a surface
tranquility that belies a deeper, edgy truth.
Kay
developed a close connection with nature after moving to an Illinois
farm from New York City as a young girl. She remembers taking
her first photograph at age eight, a still-life setup of a butterfly
on a rock.
From Illinois, Kay moved to Boston and attended and graduated
from Northeastern University. Motivated by working with photographs
in the Boston Globe library, she received a Professional Diploma
from the New England School of Photography and began her serious
pursuit of photography.
One of the founders of the Brickbottom Artists Building in Somerville,
Massachusetts, Kay established her studio there and participated
in numerous Open Studios. She became actively involved in Somerville
Arts Council events, including the popular Somerville Garden Awards.
Her work with the Arts Council led her to experimentation with
alternative processes, such as photo transfer images and hand-colored
black and white prints, and she began to successfully exhibit
her fine art photography.
In
contrast to her commercial work, her fine art photography is mostly
organic: a vanitas series with plant and animal parts,
a series of hand-colored photographs of urban gardens, Polaroid
transfer images of flowers and fish, pinhole and 3-D landscapes,
and, most recently, night landscapes and night portraits using
light-painting techniques.
Her
photographs have been exhibited in national and regional juried
shows and her work is included in corporate, museum and private
collections.
After too long a period without trees, Kay moved to the Berkshires
in 2002 and established her studio in Adams, Massachusetts.
Kay Canavino's fine art portfolio can be viewed by appointment.
Also, she accepts commissions, such as photographing people in
their homes or gardens.
Limited edition prints of selected images are available for collectors
and are shown on this website.