Welcome to AHB's Holiday Art Auction! Thank you so much for stopping by. Here you will find two incredible works of art by AHB board member, and esteemed artist, Jean-Claude Louis.

About Jean-Claude:

A native of Alsace, France, Jean-Claude is an artist living and working in the Pacific Northwest. Using film, digital capture, digital processing and print­making techniques, he creates images that explore themes of nature and landscape. His creative processes are a reflection of his training as a physician and a sci­entist - a continuous path of exploration and experimentation. Instead of presenting the reality of things, he transforms it into a subjective perspective by manipulating color, light, shadows, contrast and texture, sometimes com­bining multiple photographs- 'making' an image rather than 'taking' a pic­ture - less description, more imagination; less documentation, more sugges­tion. Once the images are processed, a metal print is created by infusing dyes into coated Chromaluxe aluminum plates. The metal shows through the image, giving the sheer surface a unique translucent luminescence, with iridescent color hues. Jean-Claude's work has won numerous awards, notably the Travel Photogra­pher of the Year Award 2007, the National Geographic Society International Contest 2007, the National Geographic Traveler Prize 2009, the Prix de la Pho­tographie de Paris 2009. his images have been exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, Paris and London, and have been extensively published: in the National Geographic Magazine, the National Geographic Traveler Magazine, COLOR Magazine, B&W Magazine, Spanish Geo Magazine.