Dacota Maphis

Digital Art

DACOTA MAPHIS lives life as if art is life and life is art, believing expressing it is where it gets interesting. Her choices of what, why and how lets her personality show. Dacota’s voice is always to inspire meaningful thought that lives in love and caring. She has been a photographer for over forty-five years which lead her to add digital art, which became her day job. In between, there has been wearable art, 3D display art from concept to in store installation and oil portrait painting. What Dacota is best known for is her style of digital art, that she has named Digital PHra (Photo Revised Art). The process always starts with a photograph, then by the moving of pixels around in photoshop as if they were paint on a canvas it allows the unleashing of her create juices, pulling from her subconscious the ideas lead to form a completely different piece of art than the photograph started. The process is as exciting as the art. The vivid imagination she draws from is her personal feelings and memories which she references to as the rings in a tree. Looking back on Dacota’s art’s progression over the sixteen years of creating these unique pieces of art, the evolution, the ever-changing art movement has still left her distinct style gracing many homes and businesses to evoke imagination and conversation. Dacota Maphis is a full-time award-winning artist born in Greenville, South Carolina and creating art daily in Clearwater, Florida.