Welcome to Paul Vernon's label of creative output and artistic expression Captain Cowboy.
Group exhibition featuring an extensive "photo grid" wall, instant film, photo series Watercolours and early sketches / experimentation with AI visuals. |
The second book from CapCow is architecturally focussed and available here. This first volume derives from the larger "strange space" project. |
Watercolours shows the striking seasons reflected in a pond. Prints of the photo series are available here on fine art quality Hahnemühle Photorag paper.
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Short film Spirit, made during time in the Unearth Collective, is currently in post-production being completed, sound and colour grading finessed and finished.
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"Living in a former palace. London's elusive light. Animals. Dreams. Memories of an English countryside childhood. Investigation, memoir, visual essay and fiction convene..." |
A digital garden and online installation was the culmination of collaboration and conversation between artists in the Unearth Collective virtual residency in 2023 between Paul and international artists. Based out of California/Illinois.
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First Exhibition was Paul Vernon's mixed media debut solo exhibition and installation devised and co-curated with John Coster at the Documentary Media Centre featuring instant film, digital photography, the Watercolours series and The Divine Visions of Hildegard von Bingen film.
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Ongoing growing photography projects of multiple subjects, styles, considerations, tones and locales:
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The fun and versatility with AI generated visuals has been astounding, giving birth to new stories, ideas and places. Although originally intended as new works for Captain Cowboy, these AI narratives and exploration will have its home at worldsofAI.com - a new website launching.
Captain Cowboy brings together Paul Vernon's projects of photography, internationally selected award-winning films, original books and other mediums under one label as an odyssey of work and output. Paul is currently part of the Unearth Art Collective (a small group of invited artists from US, UK and UAE) working towards a digital garden, having discussed thoughts and philosophies around technology and nature derived from meetings through 2023. Within this framework and as a result of the collective, Paul is currently finishing a new film Spirit, as his contribution and result.
I started Captain Cowboy a few years ago when I was rummaging through my unpublished photography. After realising the value of the full breadth of my visual work, I began writing, categorising and sequencing the images creating new projects in the process. Initially out of that came the Candlelight Flavoured Bubblegum book series; with the inaugural artwork The Light That's Lost photobook self-published in 2020. In 2021 I published the second, about the space around us and architecture, Strange Space. In 2022 I had my debut solo show of mixed media First Exhibition at the Documentary Media Centre as an installation incorporating my films, books and digital / instant film photography. [re-write]
Self-portrait (circa 2018)
