Cyanotype

Figure 1.1. Little Cyan Face, cyanotype on paper, 9″ × 12″ © Brenton Hamilton 2017. “Working with cameraless techniques I find and recreate pictures from culture, refashioning the cut and collaged image works into something new. I am especially drawn to cyanotype and all of its hues. My storytelling and yarn spinning with images takes on and implies a radical new possibility. Paint, gold leaf, silver and the iconic deep blue-black are the palette of my cyanotype works.” For over 20 years Brenton Hamilton has created a sustained body of work, largely concentrated within historic processes. Hamilton is a well-known teacher on the campus of Maine ...