"Winter 2014" by Patricia Pasteur  11x14 photograph blended with a handpainted background. The photograph was taken at Cold Stream Pond in Lincoln, Maine. Printed on canvas and mounted on a woden panel frame.

Pasteur’s work is the result of a great deal of experimentation and happy accidents. Using a blank canvas painted with bright, vivid colors in acrylic, it is then treated with a digital ground which enables the colors to fully absorb the dye-based ink from the printer making it waterproof and permanent. Several photographs are then blended together and printed on the archival canvas. According to Pasteur, “I never know what the final outcome will be. I love taking an ordinary photograph and making it extraordinary.” 

Patricia Pasteur will be at the 2014 Homecoming Craft Fair and Maine Marketplace at the University of Maine Field House October 18 and 19, 2014.