Viola’s images emanate a dreamy
tenderness, illuminated softly but deftly by
the flowing textures that allure your senses,
eagerly urging you to reach out and touch the
silky smoothness of a draped cloth or caress
a warm plush of downy feathers. Her use of
light and shadow to create both revelation and
mystery adds impeccable drama, capturing
the intrinsic beauty of her subjects and giving
voice to her images that is both elegantly
sombre and divinely powerful.
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“I found myself literally enchanted watching
a drapery, a movement, a shadow, with my
mind going into another dimension,” illumes
Viola, “My passion for photography is linked to
this process: taking inspiration from reality and
transposing it into my imagination, applying
‘my’ light, thoughts, and world.”
To conceive and create within this world
of no limitation is no small undertaking, and
Viola’s creative process has many facets.
“The photo is never the starting point;