Posted by Juliet van Otteren on Jun 1, 2011
Short Biography of the Artist
Juliet van Otteren’s first passions were dance and riding her horses bareback across the countryside. As an adult she studied various philosophical disciplines and lived for a number of years in the Middle East and the Himalayas, where she first explored portrait photography.
Posted by Juliet van Otteren on Jun 1, 2011
Reflections
Select photographs that show the beauty found in reflections.
Posted by Juliet van Otteren on Jun 1, 2011
Private Commissions
Sample portraits of commissioned photography shots
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Horses
Collection of photographs of horses. Some of these photographs appear in the Heart of the Horse.
Posted by Juliet van Otteren on Jun 1, 2011
Publications
The book “Heart of the Horse” and the poster “The Nuzzle” feature my pictures of horses.
Posted by Juliet van Otteren on Jun 1, 2011
Collections
My portraits and photographs can be seen in person in numerous collections, both public and private around the world. Locations of Collections around the world Private Collections Isabel Allende, San Rafael, CA Lady Bronwyn Astor, UK Russell Banks, NYC, NY Donna and Philip Berber, Austin TX Harold Bloom, New Haven, CT Thomas Boyle, Montecito, CA Billy Collins, CT Ted Conover, NYC, NY Elizabeth George,...
A Vision Statement
I strive in my work to point through the visible form into what is not readily perceptible, the universally human. I see my art as the creation of images compelling enough in their power to invite and invoke that connectedness which slumbers in the deepest recesses of our being – images which can draw us deeper in participation with the universally human. My responsibility as an artist-photographer is to open up something beyond the form, through the juxtaposition of light and dark, form and movement, statement and silence, that reveals the essence, the multi-dimensional of the greater whole.
I believe that my images express an awakening from the dark minimalism of yesterday and are the enunciation of the spiritual inner expansion of tomorrow. Not art for arts sake, but art for the upliftment of the human spirit.
--Juliet