David Sutton
Blending science and art to gain a greater understanding of science and produce artwork that reflects nature’s beauty.
A fascination for me is seeing science and nature at work as I produce the art. I combine the maths that describes natural processes to produce fractal images and the technology used to understand how robots see the world, to restyle images. I also write computer code to create images. I combine these with photography and Digital Art (digital editing) to create an image.
My work is unique in the way that I combine different processes. I focus on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, ART, maths) and try to integrate as many of the disciplines as possible into the art and its production. I’ve always been involved in developing innovative solutions to major challenges and try to innovate whenever possible, which is where much of the fun is.
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I don’t normally start with a theme, however in this case the theme was a Historical Streetscape. Lots of fractal art, artificial intelligence re-styling, digital art, photography. Even some coding and maths.
This is one of my very first pictures. If you look closely you can see my image in the globe being reproduced an infinite number of times. The picture was taken with the Box Brownie camera you can see. I built the camera using an old camera and the latest small computer, which I programmed. I used the latest AI to restyle the image, but there is no Digital Manipulation. This is typical of my approach.
Natural World. Lots of fractal art and digital editing. The vases were created by combining fractal images and digitally editing them. The bees are digitally edited photographs, using computer code to create re-styling images for use by artificial intelligence.
Birkdale and Ainsdale Sand Dunes. I took this photo during a particularly wet period. The butterflies were all photographed locally by local ecologist, Philip Smith. I reproduced the green butterfly (as per the famous butterfly effect maths) using computer code.