Dianne Bos’ Herbarium Photo(synthesis) work further explores her interest in the history of photography and the science of light. An herbarium is a collection of dried plant specimens used for scientific study. In this new series of work, Bos turns her own herbarium into a photo album by using sunlight to create images on plants. The resulting chlorophyll prints are made using the chemistry that is naturally at work in a living plant. It is the ultimate sustainable photographic process. These images are just as fragile and ephemeral as specific life-forms may be when faced with abrupt ecosystem change.

Dianne was born in 1956 in Hamilton, Ontario, Dianne Bos received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Mount Allison University. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally since the 1980’s.
 One of her recent series The Sleeping Green, No Man’s Land 100 Years Later , organized by the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, was presented internationally at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris in April 2017 and was exhibited across Canada including the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the McMichael Gallery.
Many of Bos’s recent exhibitions feature handmade cameras, walk-in light installations, and sound pieces. These tools and devices formulate and extend her investigations of journeying, time, and the science of light. This work appeared in the traveling exhibits; Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography, New Mexico

Museum, Seeing, Science Gallery, Dublin Ireland. ‘See the Stars,’ a multi-aperture tent installation created for the ‘Midnight Sun Camera Obscura Festival’ in Dawson City, Yukon and Star Shed at McMaster Museum in Hamilton.

She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards. Dianne’s work has been presented internationally in the USA, Ireland, France, Spain, Germany, Japan and Italy and she is a sought after presenter on, and instructor in, alternative photography techniques. Her work is represented in many private and public collections including The National Gallery of Canada, Glenbow Museum, Art Gallery of Hamilton, The McMaster Museum of Art. She has been twice nominated for the Scotia Bank Photography award and co-founded Exposure: Alberta’s Photography Festival.

HERBARIUM 1

ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT FROM CHLOROPHYLL PRINTED LEAVES, MOUNTED

ON ALUPEL. 18 X 24’’

1,200.00

ERBARIUM 11

ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT FROM CHLOROPHYLL PRINTED LEAVES, MOUNTED

ON ALUPEL. 18 X 24’’

1,200.00

TREE IMAGE

‘‘CHENE SUR UNE FEUILLE D’ARUM’’ 32 X 24’’

ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT FROM CHLOROPHYLL PRINTED LEAVES, MOUNTED ON ALUPEL

2,100.00