Aqua art

Published: July 04, 2009

THEY could be the latest Nasa photographs from the cloud systems of Jupiter, a new species of jellyfish, or microscopic views inside the human body. But in fact these amazing images are a whole new art form.
The work of self-styled ‘aqua artist’ Mark Mawson, they are created simply by dropping paint into water.
Splashing paint around has been a standard artistic approach ever since Jackson Pollock made his name with it in the 1950s. But by dropping the paint into water instead of onto a canvas, Mawson has arrived at a startlingly new look. The 41-year-old, from London, has been taking pictures for 22 years but only recently came up with the eye-catching way of creating stunning and beautiful abstract forms at random.
Mawson, who specialises in shooting underwater scenes and people, takes different kinds of paint and drops them into a tank before snapping the outcome with his camera and using a strobe to light up the weird and wonderful forms. One secret of creating the variety of shapes is using paints with different densities – Daily Mail

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