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I am a freelance photographer and fine artist. I have 20 years commercial experience.
Photographer Bazil Raubach presented a variety of striking and dramatic images, with a fine balance between his zero-light theatre, dance and jazz photography, and his fine art prints of ethnic and Eastern Cape landscape scenes. He has made the potassium dichromate technique his own with the use of colour, sponges, brushes, acrylics, watercolours, unusual pigments and fibreglass rubbers. Raubach has worked as a commercial illustrator, graphic designer and photographer for more than 30 years. He uses this experience to produce lively and energetic images that never bore and always inspire. His playful use of colour and spontaneous integration of technique evoke a questioning of where the photography ends and the painting begins. His Dragon series uses imaginative techniques and subtlety of colour to portray the “mummified” remains of a gecko. Raubach tints his work with Rooibos tea, among other unusual pigments, in the Rose-tinted Images exhibition. Shembé Boy is a monochromatic print, painted with acrylics using an African palette of colours, and contrasts strongly with his Shembé Priest, where his favourite technique of coffee and Rooibos tea is ragged to create a variety of tones, finished off using household PVA. His distinctive brushstrokes and illustrative style are apparent in most of the pieces on display. Another popular piece is Hood Point Lighthouse, a limited edition print that perfectly illustrates how subtle, almost monochromatic colours can pick up a local landmark and turn it into a piece of fine art.