A Man Floating, 2025, water color and cyanotype collage, 11.5 x 9 inches

My latest works from the studio help me bridge transitions, something that I experience after large exhibitions. How can I evolve this work and merge the cyanotype method into an interrogation of new ideas ? How can I make a new image, that is my own? A Sailor and History, A Flag and the Contemporary - merging various interests in the materials and my surrealist impulses, I've been making a series of collage based works and applying cyanotype on Belgian linen. Both of these pictures are images of peril (The Flag work). Cultural peril and the perils and odyssey of life (The Sailor piece). The flag piece (Imperiled Flag) - is exactly as it states. An embellished cyanotype, a flag in reversal, sewn, repaired, "decorated" - oen installed draped and folded. It's a new object with a distinct cultural critique. The sailor on paper, floats and swirls in a tempest of marks and emotion and turbulence. Elements I have pursued in creative work for decades. -B. H.

For over three decades,  Brenton Hamilton has created a sustained body of work, largely concentrated within historic process. Especially gum bichromated forms, platinum, the embellished cyanotype, and collodion on black glass, during these decades,  he has produced a unique body of work. Shaping a large catalog of embellished stories using the vocabulary of surrealism,  revealing his thoughts and musings and life's upheaval.