photography & paintings

ANDREA WITZKE SLOT
author, artist

My paintings and my photography are deeply connected to my work as a poet. I believe in capturing language inside visual art and want viewers to come away from my images with new words, thoughts and connections. My work is influenced by nature's surprises and the spiritual in the numerous possible iterations of that complex and multiply-interpretable word (the kind I like best).

I painted the cover for my latest collection The Ministry of Flowers and created illustrations for many of the poems inside.
You can buy a copy from the publisher Valley Press or from Amazon UK or Amazon US.

Feel free to enquire if you'd like to purchase any photograph or art piece either in its original form or as a bookmark or greeting card.

Can be made to order. Email me at andrea.witzke.slot@gmail.com

paintings & drawings

Photography

My writing is also linked to my love of photography, which started when an uncle gave me his old Nikon camera (manual, of course) with an amazing array of lenses and other equipment that I had no idea how to use. I took classes and spent many hours wandering around the wooded areas in which we lived (Tennessee during my teenage years), hoping to capture small slices of life in the afternoon light with that camera. Back then I usually had the photos developed into slides (cheaper), with no option for editing unless I spent time in a darkroom, which I only had access to when taking classes. Nowadays, I use two DSLR cams -- a Nikon and a Canon, and I like to play around with the manual mode features in particular. I have no claim to any high-end knowledge of photography but I know I love capturing moments of light and colour and wonder in the world around me.