About this Artist
About this ArtistNola Hamilton-Stone is a photographic artist and hand colourist. Photographing with black and white film, developing the prints and then applying the colour to her images by hand in the most intricate and delicate fashion.
Nola is currently looking to have her work placed in galleries that represent the fine arts, both in Australia and overseas, and can be contacted through the following address:
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Nola loves photographing images that represent old fashioned lifestyles and by-gone eras. She enjoys the liberty of selecting the colours used within her pictures, which enables her to play up or tone down areas to give extra balance to the composition and all over image.
When using oils she makes use of some of the smallest brushes available on the market and painstakingly applies and blends the colours onto the image. However, Nola has also devised her own way of using soft pastels to colour her photography, which is an idea she has never done before by anyone else. This creates a fascinating new effect without obliterating the image beneath.
With conservation of her artwork in mind, Nola uses only artist's quality mounting. Then as she does not believe in mass producing her hand coloured work she only paints one from each negative. At the very most she will paint one in oil and colour one in pastel because the technique and end results are quite different. In this way this makes each piece unique and collectable.