Cp-art by Poul Christensen - an introduction

Galactic Journey

CHRISTENSEN PHOTO

CHRISTENSEN PHOTO

PHOTOART

My camera is my brush More than 30 years in photography. I began my lifelong passion in 1989.

I never planned to be a photographer but a trip around the world in 1989 created a spark.

I come from a creative family, my grandfather on my mothers side was a carpenter paying attention to detail like no other person, I have met. My grandfather on my fathers side was a traditional bookbinder who loved painting and sculpting and allthough my father chose a different line of work he always loved the art of drawing.

Through the years I have tried almost everything within photography - in Denmark and around Europe. Clients spanning from the new small biz that needed photos for their new website to global companies needing documentation for worldwide product launches.

The experiences from working in different lines of business and with so many people in so many places has given me a gift in life. I love the conversations with people, I love the process of getting the right idea for the job, finding the location, the light, the angle and working with it in postproduction.

Art is everywhere - even in the places you least expect to find it. Many years ago I was given the opportunity to capture art for a business and that kickstarted my creations. This has led to many more jobs and often the assignment is to correct spaces that needs energy and structure.

I want to bring you a perspective - make you feel- create a corridor to a creative universe that puzzels your mind- touch the creative part of you- make you feel positive, happy and curious - raise awareness and start a dialogue of how inspiring nature is and how essential it is for our survival in more ways than we know.

I believe in utopia and abundance and think that art should create curious and positive feelings in order for us to support the abundance in our lives - a circular movement.To truly change the way we care too little about nature my work reflects how I find inspiration and appreciate and thank nature for its positive effect on my art and my life “My experience as a professional photographer and the eternal search for the perfect light and the best angles are my most important tools when creating art. Most of my work is abstract - a few others naturalistic.”

I’m only a phonecall away

+45 5148 8674 cp-art@mail.dk

CHRISTENSEN

2 CP-ART · Hvilhusevej 91 · 8970 Havndal cvr. 42142697

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ME TAKING PICTURES OF ONE OF MY PAINTINGS

Freedom I like that I can change the lenses. This makes it possible to change the perspective, the distance, the framing of the subject/object and capture exactly what I want.

In other words, I decide 100% what I want to capture.

This is the freedom I have gained by investing in my equipment. In the same session I can capture the details of a caterpillar and secondly the surrounding colors and structures - and if I needed to capture more i.e. from 120 m above in the sky - I could capture that too.

I love that freedom.

MY CAMERA IS MY BRUSH - BONUS INFO Photoshop I do also paint with real paint brushes on real canvases, when I want something very specific to start from.

My approach is different to that of a painter, as I use my paintings as the basis for my pieces. The painting is not a piece in itself.

I have worked with digital post-production for more than 25 years and my camera for more than 30 years so I know my tools pretty well. Painters have tryed to create exact colors with paint for hundreds of years.

I’m so facinated that I can create an exact color using my chosen tools.

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And now for the nerds: The Fuji 100s delivers a 16 bit 101 mgp photo which means

281 trillion possible colors

photoshoot (a caterpiller)

If that does not make you happy, I don’t know what will!

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PREMIUM Colormonochrome

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The Premium Edition Prints comes in multiple sizes, choose your material from Acrylic Glass, Canvas or Fine-art print. If you would like Acoustic Reducing material, printed film for windows, doors etc. this is a possibility, You can find some of the pieces in our webshop cp-art.dk.

If you have seen a piece on christensenphotoart.com that you like that is not yet for sale, please contact us.

Categories We have more than 650 pieces.

They come in all the colors of the world and with variations from abstract to naturalistic.

Some pieces are part of a series, but most pieces are singles.

They have all been created with a camera in front of Pouls eye - most of them inspired by nature (a few by his own paintings or something that caught his attention) and then they begin their journey in postproduction where Poul sees where the piece is taking him.

UNIQUE

UNIQUE

Only ever 29 available for sale .

The UNIQUE

UNIQUE DIAMOND

The Master pieces are hand-selected by the artist.

Choose your material from AcrylicGlass, Canvas or Fine-art print.

You can find some of the pieces in our webshop cp-art.dk.

If you have seen a piece on christensenphotoart.com that you like that is not yet for sale, please contact us.

.......is indeed unique – it is one of a kind – there is only ever one to be sold.

Truly is something else.

MASTER

Unique is only ever printed one time in one size and is never re-printed.

You choose either Glass or Acrylic Glass for the print.

diamond

These are not for everybody as these are only released for sale for persons who have purchased a Unique piece.

Unique Diamond is only ever printed one time in one size and is never re-printed.

Please contact us for more information.

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Most of my work in the Master, Unique and Unique Diamond Maximum are delivered on Acrylic glass on Photo Print With the Photo Print Under Acrylic Glass, Cp-Art enables you to emphasize even the smallest details in the pieces. The Photo Print remains precisely detailed – even in large formats and when viewed up close.

The quality is the finest - and for most sizes you can choose between 2, 4 or 6 mm acrylic and gallery standard print or HD-print.

The characteristics of the razor sharp Photo Print are exhibited perfectly under acrylic glass. The light, shatterproof material enhances the appearance, making the colours and depth really pop.

The 3 mm aluminium Dibond backing consists of two layers of aluminium sandwiched around a polyethylene core. This completes the overall look while providing additional stability. A rail is mounted on the back - ready to hang.

Choose to hang as is or add an aluminium frame - minimalistic style in grey, black, white or gold..

MASTER

UNIQUE diamond

UNIQUE

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PREMIUM The Premium Edition Prints comes in multiple sizes, choose your material from Acrylic Glass, Canvas or Fine-art print. If you would like Acoustic Reducing material, printed film for windows, doors etc. this is a possibility. Below are shown just a few options.

You can find some of the pieces in our webshop cp-art.dk.

If you have seen a piece on christensenphotoart.com that you like that is not yet for sale, please contact us.

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My passion Mountains Get Past Ageing Beginning of Time Blind Blind 3 Blind 2 Life Breathing

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Finland

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Oriental

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MASTER Only ever 29 available for sale. Choose your material from AcrylicGlass, Canvas or Fine-art print.

The Master pieces are hand-selected by the artist.

You can find some of the pieces in our webshop cp-art.dk.

If you have seen a piece on christensenphotoart.com that you like that is not yet for sale, please contact us.

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Lashes

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Venice in Spring

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Dress

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Mystic

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Action

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Matte blues

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Softness

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In Disguise

Hidden world

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12 Strong 13 Colorful 14 Golden Tracks 15 Sapphire 16 What Do You See? 17 Citylights 3 18 Secrets 19 Noisy

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On Canvas

Evening

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FlowerExplosion

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Another Look

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Tracks

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20 Velvet 21 Looking Up 22 Myriad 23 Eye In The Sky 24 Velvet 3 25 Contrastly

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UNIQUE There is a serialized hologram on your Certificate of Authenticity and a Certificate with an identical serialized hologram on the backside of your piece.

This is registered and kept at Cp-art with the sales documents. This is to ensure you that you have purchased an original and if you wish to sell it at any given time, you can proove the authenticity.

Every piece is signed by Poul.

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The UNIQUE

.......is indeed unique – it is one of a kind – there is only ever one to be sold.

Unique is only ever printed one time in one size and is never re-printed.

A UNIQUE piece - a piece chosen by Poul pesonally because it is something special - and there is only one of each piece.

You can make a bid at the pieces you find special, too.

You choose either Glass or Acrylic Glass for the print.

Please contact us for more information.

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ABSTRACT ART ”Abstraction demands more from me than realism. Instead of reproducing something outside of me, now I go inward and use everything I’ve learned thus far in my life.”

(Susan Avishai)

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Brown Vintage

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Movement

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Flower Waters

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”Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.” Oscar Wilde.

Grandfather

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LifeStory

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Earthy

Mandala

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Life Experience

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Flower

Layers

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Eyes

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Liquid Harmony

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Advection Fog

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Entrapment

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Craft

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The View

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Space

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Textures

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Tree Peace

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Harmony

The Details

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Currents

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Galactic Journey

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Spring

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Busy Warm

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Horizon

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Twilight

Center

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Earthfeels

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System

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Crystallic 1

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”The language of colors is like the curiosity of the soul ”

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Creatures

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I want to bring you a perspective - make you feel.

I want to create a corridor to a creative universe that puzzels your mind.

I want my art to touch the creative part of you.

I want my art to make you feel several feelings .....mostly the positive, happy and curious ones.

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Grey Gol

Windy Waves

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Vintage

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Fields

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GO BIG Most of my pieces are designed for large sizes.

I like that you can see all the details of the shapes and the colors up and close.

I want you to have the best experience.

The piece is in its rightful size when shown in the size it was meant for.

You can enjoy the whole piece from afar and the details up and close.

To me this is a more perfect experience in a room.

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UNIQUE diamond

There are very few Unique Diamond pieces available.

Unique Diamond-pieces are not published anywhere.

They are the finest of my works and only for the eyes of clients who have invested in a minimum of one Unique piece.

If you have bought a Unique piece you will automatically get visual access to the collection of Unique Diamond pieces.

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UPGRADE

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If you find a piece that you wish to be the only owner of, you can upgrade it from a Premium or a Master if the piece has not yet been sold in any edition.

Contact us for further information

+45 51488674 cp-art@mail.dk

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NATURE + PHOTOS Spending time with my camera in nature makes me relax.

I love the sounds, the smells, the visual impressions, the temperature and most of all the air from the sea.

As a child I spent most of my summers in our familyboat. I love the seabreeze, the sounds and smells of the water and enjoy taking my family to the West Coast of Denmark on a windy afternoon in Fall.

The hunt for subjects - especially when it comes to animals or insects is all-consuming and fun and when I look for inspiration in the wild flora and fauna the process is enjoyable and I sometimes think the experiences here are prolonging my life.

I love the thought of bringing nature into our buildings and houses and in this way creating a connection to nature for us all the time.

Nature is under pressure and the more we appreciate it the more we pay attention to it the more we can and we will do to protect it and make sure that our children too can spend hours enjoying their world when they want to and need to.

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NATURALISTIC PIECES The naturalistic still appeals to me eventhough the abstract is definately taking over. The mushrooms here fascinates me with their shapes, colors and their imperfect perfectionism.

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ART MAKES US HAPPY “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”

Henry David Thoreau And science has shown that we get happier when we create or experience art.

I happen to agree completely as I feel so good when creating it and I also love experiencing art and feel what happens to me experiencing it.

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ART John F. Kennedy said: ”We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.”

In all societies art can make us experience like nothing else can.

Besides being eyecandy with the colors, shapes and beautiful materials - it can transform spaces and places with new moods. It can be unpleasant, excite, provoke and it can soothe, inspire and fill you with joy.

When standing in front of a piece of art that speaks to you you are open - able to receive impressions and experiences.

Then you can feel.

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Bushfire

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Forestfloor

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CUSTOM MADE FOR YOU

.....in the color that matches your decor - art does not have to be impractical to be real High quality custom made pieces of photographic art – created as per your request and printed on a material of your choice and in the exact size you need.

If you need specific colors, sizes or subjects, if you need to tell a story, if you know a place that means something special and you want it on your wall - we can help.

We start a converstation about what you want, materials, the expression and so on. I will bring some inputs and when we know where to go, I start with my camera. I’ll find the subjects etc. that works as a base in the process.

We’ll have a look at it together and when I am done with the piece you will receive it ready to hang on your wall in the material of your choice.

If you need assistance with hanging the piece, we can be of help.

Please contact us on 0045 51 48 86 74 or cp-art@mail.dk for more information on your personal art.

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Take a picture of the wall you want your new piece on

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Send it to CP-ART@MAIL.DK

cp-art@mail.dk

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We’ll put your choises in the wall ......and send it back to you for your evaluation on what looks best.

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“Creativity takes courage.” ...Henri Matisse