Pop Art Creations – it’s all in a day’s work at Jenny Latto Art & Design’s NZ Studio!

The pop art design creative inspiration process is an interesting journey! My photos really are nature captured as art – I’m going to talk you through that creative process today…

Lying in bed, the sun is streaming through the window, the smell of coffee waifs down the hallway.

It’s time to think about the day and what amazing, gorgeous things I can create.

Suddenly, as the alarm goes off, reality strikes. this isn’t a romance novel and that isn’t coffee brewing! The smells are of winter rain turning farm soil into mucky winter mud & mud covered animals.  Make that the HUNGRY animals!

Time to rise and shine, eat breakfast and head down the farm – the animals await!

While I’m not a fan of losing a gumboot in the thick deep mud  – sometimes both of them – I do have to say that the Winter scene before me is inspiring from an artistic photography point of view. It’s the stuff great pop art is made of.

The rain of late has put a real dampener on things with the animals turning the paddocks to mud. Sometimes the mud is thick enough to suck the gumboot right off your foot or cause you to lose your balance and it’s a mud bath. Then there are the frosty days where a fairly brisk start turns into an incredibly beautiful illumination of life.

Mud Glorious Mud

Pop art is all about capturing life with art – the artistic expression of the every-day is what I love about Pop Art – and more than anything else, I love to create an aura of Kiwiana around it. That’s my zone. Mud and all.

For me, I love to see the every day as an expression of Kiwi Art. We have on our farm Angus Friesian cows or Herefords – mainly black with white or red faces. We raise them from 4 days old and their little faces are adorable (although not everyone would agree!).

We have farm adventures on occasion – the young cattle sometimes wander – not so cute when they are caught eating the neighbour’s grass and hay.. once we scoured the neighbouring area looking for 4 of our young charges who – frightened by the lightning – has wandered further than usual. A Facebook local community post post found that group.  Luckily to they were unharmed.

Our young calves are often my pop art photography models. They make outstanding subjects – standing still, proudly demonstrating excellent contrast of colours – and the expression in those eyes!

A few of the animals get names but because we have around 80 it’s a bit hard to name them all. We had one that was called Big T, named after the person we got him from, the friendliest bull around, yes still a bull. Big T had had a few bouts of ill health early on that seemed to affect a few things but because we had spent so much time with him he was so friendly. Another one was called Red, because of his colouring and another called Wobbers because early on he was a bit wobbly on his feet.

You see, hanging with the animals is like having a group of [large] friends around who inspire my artistic spark. Like people, they are all different and have their own little quirks.

Big T

My photos really are nature captured as art. It’s my life you are seeing, and I am so happy that you allow it to be part of yours.

The photos you see on my cards are the real thing – captured on my camera! I love the way the rain, the dew, the mud, the frost and the sun can play an important role in how we see things – when we really look. I hope you like them too. When you do, you’ll be seeing my four-legged charges, my kids of a sort – many of them with names.

My cards are for me a very personal sharing of things that inspire me and are special in my life. That’s why they make great cards – when you think it through.

I really hope the cows and the cards inspire you too. And next time you see a Jenny Latto Art & Design card – ask yourself: could this be Wobbers? Or might this be Big T’s son.

Jenny x