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E-mail: warcultsupremacy@hotmail.com
Location: Spain
Specialty: traditional and digital

Biography

Irene D.M. aka Namtaru was born in Spain in 1984 and always had a special interest in graphic arts and music, uising the inspiration and mixing both of them in her art.





She studied the artistic bachelor degree and developed a big interest for photography when she was 18. Following that interest, she joined in the Art School of Seville to became Superior Technic in Artistic Photography two years after. During these years she started to network with metal bands for comission artwork and live photography. Before finishing the degree she practised as a live reporter for Estadio Deportivo, a spanish sport journal, in which her images were published from covers to central pages and back covers.





In 2005 she moved to Barcelona where she now is studying the second year of an Illustration superior degree in the Art School "Illa" in Sabadell, and become Superior Technic in that category. At the end of the same year, she started to work as collaborator for Friedhof Online Magazine (Spain), working as live photographer, live reviews and band interviews - and also helping with the webzine design.


Namtaru








Inspiration:





Mostly of the inspiration fonts for Namtaru are into music, ancient and decadent cultures, philosophy and terror literature, nature, travelling and others. Between her admired artitst are painters like Hyeronimous Bosch, Brueguel, Gustave Doré, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Goya, M.C. Escher, Th. Kittelsen, Edvard Munch, Odd Nedrum, Artemisa Gentileschi, H.R. Giger; photographers like Edward Weston, Brassaï, Peter Witkin, H. Cartier Bresson, Sebastiao Salgado, Richard Avedon, Steve McCurry, Robert Frank, Ortiz Echagüe; writers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Cioran, Edgard Allan Poe, Howard Philips Lovecraft; cinema directors like Alfred Hichtcock, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski...; and a great and special apreciation to the King of Terror Vincent Price.








Photography:





Nikon D200 Reflex Digital, Nikkor 28-100mm AF, Nikon AF 18-70mm, Nikon AG 70-300mm, Nikon Flash SB800, Canon EOS300 Reflex, Canon AF 28-90mm, Cullman tripod 2800, B+W filters, Hoya filters, Cokin A Serie filters, Developer Meopta 4.5 for b/w, Kodak developer/fixer, Ilford paper RC and varitade.








Drawing/painting:





For drawings she uses graphite pencils, watercolors, watercolor pencils, rough pastel crayons, charcoal, gouaches, oil colors, grattage, handmade textures and others.





She has also been working with bodypainting and some make up for her photo sessions.





For digital drawing and painting she uses Macromedia Freehand MX, Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Painter X - and a Wacom Sapphire tablet.

Contacts

website: namtarucreations.com



email: plagues@namtarucreations.com

Awards

  • Women day poster contest of Estepa, Sevilla, Spain, March´07. Star Wars poster contest, second place, Festival of fantasy cinema and short movies of Benalmádena, Málaga, Spain.

Education

  • Artistic Bachelor at Politecnic Institute, Sevilla, Spain. 2000/02 Artistic Photography at Applicated Arts School, Sevilla, Spain - 2003/05 Graphic Design and Illustration at Illa Applicated Arts School, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain. - 2005/07

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