Painting Archives - Page 32 of 35

Pauline Allomes

1 July 2014
Acrylic, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Drawing, Featured Artists, Ink, Landscape, Micrography, Nature, Painting, Realism

THE FINER DETAIL

A strong interest in art as a child did not hold much sway in the early 1960s when women did not go to art school and were expected to become nurses or secretaries, get married young and stay at home to look after the children.

Pauline Allomes was 50 before she was free to follow a desire that had been with her all her life and enrol at art school. “Through the years of raising children I had a strong interest in fibre and on entering art school thought I would become a fibre artist,” Pauline says, “this changed the minute I discovered paint, pastel, pen and ink.”

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John Hodgson

1 July 2014
Abstract, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Drawing, Enamel, Featured Artists, Figures, Impressionism, Oils, Painting

THE LIVING ARTIST

After many years of working in the corporate world, John Hodgson completed a long transition to full time artist with his first solo exhibition at the Depot ArtSpace in Devonport in April this year. Representing seven years of work, a good number of the pieces on show sold over the two weeks of the exhibition which also saw some 600 visitors to the gallery.

Whangarei-born, John, whose very first painting was a self-portrait completed back in 1977, has had a long interest in art but says he ‘played around’ for years while in ‘corporate career mode’ here in New Zealand and in the USA. On returning to NZ in 2003 he says he became really serious about his own art while beginning with partner Mary, a modest collection of work by New Zealand artists.

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Rebekah Codlin

1 July 2014
Acrylic, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Featured Artists, Hyper Realism, Oils, Painting, Portraits

REAL EMOTION

Realistic art has been described as not only recording the subject matter truthfully but also avoiding artistic conventions and resisting idealisation.

Some of this rings true of Rebekah Codlin’s work but the more one looks at the images she creates the more ideals and raw emotions pour through, attacking your senses from all directions with poignant effect.
This she achieves through an intelligent use of light and colour. So whatever term one may use to describe her work, Rebekah’s art is certainly not tame but rather demands attention and scrutiny.

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Karen Panton

1 July 2014
Abstract, Acrylic, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Birdlife, Expressionism, Featured Artists, Illustration, Nature, Painting, Portraits, Still-life, Surrealism

THE ART OF HUMOUR

Karen Rosaline Panton is one of those exceptional, largely self taught artists who has developed a sense of style and presentation all of her own. Reading her comments in this article and perusing through some of her paintings it is evident that Karen lives her art; each painting has a voice and meaning, each one a soul.

Apart from the odd day class, Karen, who currently hails from Napier, says she has enjoyed several short courses with the likes of Krispin Korschen, Rua Longley, Marianne Muggeridge, Megan Schmidt, among others. “All fabulous artists,” she enthuses, “who have stretched my mind sideways, up and down and inside out, that is when they could catch up with my own train of thoughts.”

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Ron Stenberg

1 July 2014
Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Drawing, Featured Artists, Figures, Illustration, Life Drawing, Oils, Painting, Pencil, Realism, Street Scenes

Award winning professional artist Jacky Pearson, speaks to one of New Zealand’s most enduring artists, Ron Stenberg, who marks his 95th birthday this month with a new solo exhibition at the Remuera Gallery in Auckland.

Ron is a former senior lecturer and head of department at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, was a council member of the Auckland Society of Arts, a painter for the Black Watch Battalion during their last days in Germany, and during the Cold War, and boasts a painting in the Queen’s private collection.

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Creative Burnout

1 July 2014
Acrylic, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Educational, Painting

It’s two-o-clock in the morning, you are standing in front of your easel, you can’t remember when you last had a…

Tonal Values

1 July 2014
Acrylic, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Drawing, Educational, Gouache, Oils, Painting, Pastels, Watercolour

GETTING YOUR TONAL VALUES RIGHT “Tonal values are critical. The lights and darks contribute more to the success of a painting’s…

Gouache

1 May 2014
Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Educational, Gouache

WHAT IS GOUACHE? The History Gouache is both a technique and a product. The technique, dating back to before the renaissance,…

Pastels

1 May 2014
Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Educational, Pastels

WHAT'S SO GREAT ABOUT PASTELS? By Serena Dawson Serena Dawson who hails from Ngunguru, says she has been asked several times:…

Monique Rush

1 May 2014
Acrylic, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Featured Artists, Kiwiana, Nature, Painting, Vehicles

SPICE OF LIFE

Monique Rush is an artist who enjoys painting a variety of subjects, ranging from landscapes and beaches, native birds, underwater life, Kiwiana to cars, (vintage, classic and new).

Monique studied art in college at Green Bay High School receiving 98% in painting and spent a year at Unitec Bachelor of Arts, from then on she taught herself. She says she has always considered herself an artist, as drawing and painting came naturally. “I have always worked hard in any job and art was my sideline but it is now becoming my main focus.”

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