Market Vermont Artist: Annie Tiberio Cameron

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Annie-Tiberio-Cameron2 I try to make familiar and simple things in nature acquire the elegance that I see through my lenses. I seek to inspire the observer, subconsciously or not, to develop his or her own special vision and see beauty where one might not even know to look. My lenses are my brushes and to create images that transcend the ordinary, I must know exactly how each will visually express the light that I see.

I see an invisible image in my mind’s eye and then endeavor to express it artistically. My years as a photography instructor have helped me refine and express to my students myriad photographic concepts, thereby helping me to become a better artist.

As my best work comes from working alone in the field, since 1991 I have traveled alone in the wilderness. For fifteen years, I made an annual sojourn into remote areas all over the United States to camp solo in places like Death Valley, Okefinokee Swamp, The Rockies, and many lesser known locations such as The Bisti Wilderness and The Sawtooth Range.

Although there are spectacular vistas everywhere I go, I also enjoy creating abstracts or close-ups that share what I feel about each place. Perhaps some day you will see the slide show I created as a retrospective of these trips, called “Death Valley, Okefinokee and Beyond.”

After 35 years in the Western Massachusetts hills, I moved to Vermont in 2005. Vermont wears different colors and plays different music from the faraway regions where I used to trek to create photographs. If the Rockies and the West could be characterized by The Halleluiah Chorus and hot southern swamps by The Blues, then les Verts Monts might be a symphonic orchestral piece with a melody that sings the story of Vermont. The West’s craggy snow-capped peaks, the grand open Great Plains, dramatic rocky ocean sides, are replaced by the startling quietness of a Vermont snowfall in the woods, the rich nuances of November’s colors, or the palette of color swells in the short burst of fall foliage, or the march of Vermont’s wildflowers through an abbreviated growing season.