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Colin Hoare

1 September 2014
Animals, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Expressionism, Featured Artists, Figures, Illustration, Impressionism, Oils, Painting, Portraits, Realism, Seascape

FAMILY PORTRAIT

Colin Hoare enjoys painting portraits. Family members, friends and better-known faces are all fair game for this self-taught artist.

Colin likes to work from photographs, saying he does not really like doing pictures of people posing or pulling a big smile. “I like it when they are relaxed and acting naturally. I think that it is a privilege to paint a portrait of someone and try to be honest,” he says. “I draw using a light pencil and then paint with a brush. I prefer painting in oil because the paint takes longer to dry than acrylic paint; this means that I don’t have to keep remixing my paint in order to make the same colour.

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Geoffrey Cox

1 September 2014
Animals, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Drawing, Featured Artists, Figures, Pencil, Polymer Clay, Realism, Sculpture

FROM PLASTICINE TO POLYMER

Geoffrey Cox has been drawing and modelling all his life. In addition to illustrating books on wildlife and natural history Geoffrey has produced a myriad of work for museums, galleries and individual collectors.

While Geoffrey recalls making plasticine models when he was 11 years old. Things became a little more serious, while he was studying for a degree in zoology, when he was asked to make models for a prehistoric reptile display at the Auckland Museum. After this he was asked to illustrate ‘Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand,’ which was how Geoffrey’s career as a professional artist really started.

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David Foley

1 July 2014
Artists, Drawing, Featured Artists, Illustration, Ink, Painting, Realism, Seascape, Street Scenes, Vehicles, Watercolour

A LINEAR PERSPECTIVE

For much of his life David Foley worked in commercial interior design and only took up serious watercolour painting on retiring, attending various workshops in New Zealand, Italy and Australia.

“While I took an interest in drawing from a very early age I did not have any formal art training at all,” he says. He did however attend the Brixton School of Building and Architecture in the UK from 1949 - 1952 and completed a five year apprenticeship in Display and Signwriting in Hamilton.

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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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Carol Laubscher

1 July 2014
Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Ceramics, Featured Artists, Figures, Impressionism, Realism, Sculpture

SHADES OF CLAY

Clay is a very sensual medium with which to work. Once you get involved, it takes on a life of its own. It is you, your hands and the clay working together, creating, moulding, curving. The end result is a marriage of both of you.

So says Naenae-based sculptor Carol Ann Laubscher who admits to being more than a little enamoured by the human form: “I love to try and emulate the beauty of the female form,” she says.

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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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Jo Chester

1 May 2014
Abstract, Animals, Artists, Featured Artists, Figures, Oils, Painting, Portraits, Realism, Still-life, Surrealism

HOLD ON TIGHT

“Art enables us to find and lose ourselves at the same time” Thomas Merton.

“Ever since I can remember I have always been drawing and creating images,” Jo Chester explains when asked about her entry in the world of art, “I had a very supportive teacher at Rotorua Girl’s High who encouraged my talent and insisted that I apply to Wellington Polytechnic to study graphic design.”

This ultimately resulted in a career with art as the baseline. “I have worked as a Graphic designer, Textile designer, even designing jeans at one stage as well as drawing up fashion shots for a retail outlet.

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Don Wilkie

1 March 2014
Animals, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Aviation, Birdlife, Featured Artists, Figures, Impressionism, Oils, Painting, Realism

SOARING TO NEW HEIGHTS

Painter, published author, and printer - Don Wilkie does not set limits on his range of creative talents.

“Painting provides the space and relaxation in which I lose myself in creating,” he reveals, “one of my biggest joys is when the painting is completed and seeing what has been achieved from a blank canvas.”

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Jane Pestell-Litten

1 March 2014
Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Featured Artists, Figures, Oils, Painting, Portraits, Realism, Still-life, Street Scenes

LIQUID LIGHT

Jane Pestell-Litten is a trans-Tasman fine artist working primarily in the traditional mediums of charcoal and watercolour, or oils on linen. Jane’s work is exclusively figurative (whole and portrait). Her charcoals are large and lively and strong in line and style.

She is driven to capture the brilliance of light and paints in the style of the Photorealist movement. Her work depicts the actuality of what the eye can see, yet allows for subject ambiguity to enable individual interpretation. Her work is held in numerous local and international private and public collections.

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Kellie Edwards

1 January 2014
Animals, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Expressionism, Featured Artists, Figures, Illustration, Landscape, Painting, Pastels, Realism, Still-life

A FOCUS ON LIGHT AND AMBIENCE

Kellie Edwards spends a lot of time outside her studio thinking and planning, and as a long distance runner she has plenty of time for thinking.

When she is not running, Kellie works part time-caring for children of local families. This time spent with children has been a good counter balance to her work in fine art, being the opposite of contemplative studio time. The transition back into almost full time art has helped her work past being the perfectionist, and having less studio time in the week has been great leverage to keep her fearlessly moving forward.

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