Warwick Saint
Born (1972-01-09) January 9, 1972
South Africa
OccupationArtist Photographer
AwardsHasselblad Masters Award

Warwick Saint (born 9 January 1972) is a painter, photographer, and mixed media artist from South Africa, recognized globally for his mastery and control of light.

Career

Warwick Saint is most famous for his portraits of A-list celebrities including Drew Barrymore, Jared Leto, Cate Blanchett, Beyoncé, Charlize Theron, Christina Aguilera, and P.Diddy.[1] He has worked for magazines including Rolling Stone, Interview Magazine, Flaunt, BlackBook Magazine, Dazed and Confused magazine, Numéro, Harpers Bazaar, Vanity Fair,[2] and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.[3] He has shot campaigns for brands including Puma, Nike, Costume National, and Diesel.[4]

Saint is a recipient of the Hasselblad Masters Award.

His Holiness on the Dalai Lama Canvas Saint Collection

In 2018, Saint moved beyond traditional photography and began exploring his work through painting; an inquiry into beauty, identity, celebrity, and the resulting psychological complexities of self-perception in our time. Saint's new creative process, which he calls "Lumadynamic Decomposition", is the result of challenging his own photography.[5]

Saint's new creative process, which he calls "Lumadynamic Decomposition", is the result of challenging his own photography.[6]

Nietzsche's Goddess 2023 Mixed Media Acrylic on Canvas 60x90 Saint Collection

An interplay of light and color imbues the photographs with a heightened sense of painterly realism. A composite of multiple shots, printed on linen mesh creates the “lumascape” which becomes the foundation for his mixed media work. He then destructs the lumascape with paint, a process in which emergent content reveals itself. Saint mixes his pallet directly on the surface of the lumascape. This approach allows Saint to integrate the two mediums of photography and paint with immediacy. Saint’s Lumadynamic Decomposition uniquely uses light to convey the effect of paint, rather than the traditional approach of using paint to capture light, creating a reversal in the sense that he moves from photorealism towards abstraction.

His new series, A Legacy Of Light, is the artistic progression stemming from a photographic career that shaped much of the visual landscape of millennial culture.[7]

Saint lives and works between Miami, Montana, and Los Angeles.

References

  1. ↑ Client List
  2. ↑ Vanity Fair Images
  3. ↑ Sports Illustrated Swuimsuit Issue, 2010
  4. ↑ Artist Profile, Guy Hepner Gallery
  5. ↑ Pariante, Fabio (3 April 2023). ""Inspiration is a mindset". Interview with mixed media artist Warwick Saint". MuseumWeek Magazine. FABIO PARIANTE.
  6. ↑ Pariante, Fabio (3 April 2023). ""Inspiration is a mindset". Interview with mixed media artist Warwick Saint". MuseumWeek Magazine.
  7. ↑ Weiner, Yitzi (9 November 2022). "Warwick Saint of The Saint Studio: 5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me When I First Became An Artist". Authority Magazine.


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