www.galleryone.ca/index.htm Ron van Dongen

Arisaema ringens, Archival Pigment Print ED 8of30, 1999, 24 x 20"  Price on request	Camellia japonica, Archival Pigment Print ED 5of30, 2006, 24 x 20"  Price on request	Cortinarius Violaceus - Edition #2, C Print, 1997, 20 x 16"  Price on request
Crocus verns Remembrance, Archival Pigment Print ED 6of30, 2000, 24 x 20"  Price on request	Fritillaria Meleagris - Edition #10, C Print, 2004, 20 x 16"  Price on request	Helleborus Rosa Ophelia II, Archival Pigment Print ED 2of5, 2006, 48 x 40"  Price on request
Lisianthus, Viburnum, etc., C Print, 2002, 20 x 16"  Price on request	Omithogalum arabicum, Silver Gelatin Print ED 29of50, 2005, 20 x 16"  Price on request	Rosa 'Bridal White', C Print, 1997, 20 x 16"  Price on request
Rosa Camille, Archival Pigment Print ED 2of30, 2006, 24 x 20"  Price on request	Rosa 'Christo', C Print, 2004, 20 x 16"  Price on request	Rosa 'Double Blue', C Print, 2005, 20 x 16"  Price on request
Rosa Jude the Obscure, Archival Pigment Print ED 2of30, 2006, 24 x 20"  Price on request	Rosa Lagowski, Archival Pigment Print ED 8of30, 2004, 24 x 20"  Price on request	Rosa 'Ophelia' II, C Print, 2005, 20 x 16"  Price on request
Rosa 'Raphael', C Print, 1996, 20 x 16"  Price on request	Rosa Stella, Archival Pigment Print ED 2of30, 2006, 24 x 20"  Price on request	Tetrapanax papyriferus, Archival Pigment Print ED 3of30, 2005, 24 x 20"  Price on request
Thunbergia grandiflora, Archival Pigment Print ED 5of30, 2006, 24 x 20"  Price on request	Tulipa Blushing Beauty, Archival Pigment Print ED 1of30, 2005, 24 x 20"  Price on request	Zantedeschia Neroli, Archival Pigment Print ED 1of5, 2006, 48 x 40"  Price on request

Ron van Dongen was born in Venezuela in 1961 and grew up in the Netherlands where he originally studied the health sciences. In 1989, van Dongen moved to San Francisco where he studied fine art. Van Dongen polished his printing skills under the tutelage of Roger Minick, a fine art photographer and expert printer. At this time, the artist began to develop his idea of concentrating on the details of his subject. After cultivating his own garden, van Dongen began to photograph flowers more exclusively. Ron van Dongen's images of still lifes are in the grand tradition of master photographers such as Atget, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Joel Peter Witkin, yet they are also imbued with a contemporary sensibility and display a command of modern photographic techniques. Today the artist resides in Portland, Oregon. Using a view camera, van Dongen is able to produce close-up, intensely detailed images of flowers. The flower itself becomes a landscape revealing changing textures and subtle plays of light. It is evident that the artist allows himself to be captured by the intricate forms of each flower he photographs. In the foreword to Ron van Dongen's new publication, Alba Nero, Steven Jenkins describes the brilliance of Ron van Dongen's floral studies. As Jenkins comments, "...rarely has the infinite mystery of a dahlia or magnolia been visualized with such hushed reverence and elegiac intensity as in the photographs of Ron van Dongen." Jenkins continues, "He shows us the flower as resourceful and delicate, decorative and essential, sacred and sensual, life force and death knell." Ron van Dongen has exhibited in several galleries throughout the United States and in the Netherlands. His work has been featured in such publications as Provacateur, Foto Nederland, and View Camera.