PelicanFoto Photography

Limited Edition Fine Art Photography

Fred has been actively combining the mediums of photography and fine art since the early 1970s. As a college art student he began combining images of photographic origin with conventional fine art serigraphy and lithography mediums, utilizing synthetic screens and litho stones and metal plates, respectively. Employing this unique combination, Fred went on to receive his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art (Printmaking) in 1975 and a Master of Arts Degree in Art, from San Jose State University in 1976. During his years at San Jose State, Fred studied under world-renowned serigraphers Ken Auvil and Steve French and lithographer Geoffrey Bowman. Inspired by their direction, Fred used photo emulsions on screens, stones and plates to transform images of photographic origin into painting-like images and also used light-sensitive silver nitrate direct emulsion coatings on Arches paper – using full-size film negatives up to 2 x 3 feet in size – creating one-at-a-time contact prints in very limited editions.

Although Fred exhibited at a number of galleries and won competitions throughout the United States during the ’70s, he chose to augment his fine art pursuits by starting his own advertising agency in Silicon Valley, California, which continues to this day. During the past twenty years, while leading all the creative direction for agency client work, Fred has continued steadfastly to create images derived from locations across the world including Spain, France, Great Britain, Italy, Mexico, the Southwest United States, Northern California, Nevada and, specifically over the past twelve years, the Hawaiian Islands.

Fred’s focus on capturing images of Hawaii is rooted in his first trip to The Islands in 1959 aboard the Matson Lines White Ship S.S. Matsonia. The magical environment so unique to Hawaii stuck with him and, in his many trips back, his consistent goal has been to capture the spirit of this magic in his images.

Today, with digital photography, image processing and output, Fred has been able to go “back-to-the-future” and pick-up where he left off with photo serigraphy and lithography, but with new images and an entirely new way of portraying the images that he sees. He creates limited editions on fine quality paper and canvas, under the highest quality standards. Prints in all mediums are available in various sizes and editions, framed and unframed as well. Licensing of images for various uses is available.