Dlela Lombard is a self-taught visionary digital artist and tao alchemist discovering and evolving her pioneering work in generative
photo-art and digital painting. With a scientific approach to her craft as non conformist photo editing, she transforms formless photo pixels into imaginative new forms, in which color and form have their own soul. Rooted in her background of black and white analogue photography, Lombard always sensed the camera lens as an extension of the spiritual eye, allowing her to make the invisible visible.In 2023, she further embraced surrealism through text automatism and AI picture generation, leading to new transformations that reflect her vision and style.

Especially in the beginning phase of generating pieces with ai seeing was as if shooting with a camera motor drive; the association was immediate because of its fastness from one picture to the next; because of photo-editing my own works without AI as a self chosen discipline in a non conformist way for at least 2 decades it was naturally evolving into generative photo art as new imaginative forms.I can now take those well edited imaginative forms as a foundation for generating new pieces through prompts;
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CAS Computer Art Society 2023  and Wise Art

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2015-2021

Discovering new shapes and forms in Photoshop based on manipulation of formless photo pixel content, a blurred green outdoors environment without an awareness about AI; a non-compliant process by movement via filters, an idea that popped up in my head like a light bulb before I heard of AI.This is when I learned more about photo editing and not by following 'tutorialism'.

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2007-2015

Photo Library Arcangel 'Book Cover Art' scouting own models outdoors with focus on crime related themes.After I left the library I took the self financed material further into the final photo-editing as a free body of work.This is how developed a feel for it.

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Print Design / Photoshop since 2000

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2007 -2020

Henry Boxer Gallery London Outsiderart deepening the seeing and my intuitive  visionary  abilities in an anti tech & art

environment.

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Zoom International Magazine Publication
Brighton&Hove Museum and Art Gallery

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Strong background in photography, darkroom and printing.Experiences in assisting photographers and working on film sets

Advertisement Agency in-house photographer, ski wear and BMW .Training and study in a private analogue photo school,diploma

Inspired by Anti Art movements of early Dada and Surrealism, some film and more music, various other jobs.

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A sudden Kundalini rise at 30 initiating ,a rebirth, the end of the past and the beginning of a new life, transcendence and renaissance. I was a student of and influenced by my father who was a film director and screenwriter, an actor and rebel who learned in the US. Despite his pitfalls in the family my parents 'managed' to raise awareness ,often unknowingly.