Kelmscott librarian, digital artist and photographer Martina Mullerova will rub shoulders with some elite European artists at the end of this month as she exhibits her artworks at a Paris gallery.
Ms Mullerova started photography when she was a teenager in the Czech Republic and eventually moved into digital artwork.
She said created her pieces with a combination of digital photographs and creative software which she could create and manipulate human figures.
“I’m a trained photographer and have owned my business previously,” she said.
“The reason for it is I can not draw, I have to use a tool to express myself and the camera became very handy.
“The software is also good because I was at uni it was a really cheap option and really creative option for me.”
Her pieces from the past 10 years will be on show next to French artist Laurent Descotils work at the La Marmite gallery in Paris.
She said the exhibition happened because of a chance meeting with Mr Descotils during his trip to Perth coordinating the Giants in February last year.
“I just got lucky, my partner’s brother was working the Giants with the French team because he climbed mount Everest and literally knows the ropes,” she said.
“One night he brought them home, got them drunk, I came home from night shift and they started to talk to me.
“He saw my images on the ipad and after and hour later he just looked at me and said, would you like to exhibit in France, I said yes.”
She said she was excited to be exhibiting but it wasn’t why she creates her pieces.
“I’m not really interested in what happens after but the process, the clicking of the shutter, capturing it is a therapy,” she said.
“Its the same working on a computer and creating those images because they can take anywhere between two days to two weeks.
“You play with it until it’s correct or it feels right, once its finished well that’s ok, its done.”
The exhibition opens January 22.
