James Bartlett’s mixed media work combines digital painting with photography. The artist breathes new life into his photographic work through layering and collaging abstractions, using line work, filters, and digital illustration techniques to enhance and abstract. 

Exploring themes of nature, passion, community, exploration, and finding inner peace, Bartlett feels that reliving moments, places, or even the idea of the places we have been helps inform how we move forward with our lives and to recognize what is truly important to us. 

A photograph of a view of a ski mountain, with ski lift lines in view, where the white of the snow overtakes the scenery -- the sky is a flourescent blue.
Horizontal photograph of a high ski path, with a skier ahead of the photographer. Sky is fluorescent blue.
Photograph of a mountain road, highlighting mountain forestry and grass terrain in deep greens and yellow.
Photograph from below a ski lift, depicting the line and the trees on either side. Everything is in shades of deep blue, fluorescent blue, or white.