From raw energy to sublime. The charcoal medium creates contrast and texture, while the abstract style invites imagination. The lily symbolizes purity, renewal, and transcendence, contrasting with the harsh charcoal strokes and suggesting a balance between beauty and challenges. The emergence from a gash represents overcoming struggles or a metaphorical rebirth. The artwork's emotional impact is open to individual interpretation, inviting viewers to reflect on themes of beauty, adversity, and transformation. Photographed using 4x5 large format Linhof film camera.
Ugne Pouwell is a fine art photographer originally from Lithuania. Today she makes most of her creative work in London, United Kingdom. Her main focus is black and white landscape and floral photography. Mainly using a large format 4x5 Linhof camera to express the timeless beauty of the subject in focus. Many of the influences come from 20th-century photography. She processes her work from start to finish: film processing, scanning and printing.
