Realism Archives - Page 13 of 14

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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Bernd Huss

1 January 2014
Animals, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Birdlife, Coloured Pencils, Featured Artists, Landscape, Painting, Realism, Seascape

MOMENT IN TIME

For someone who has not had any formal training and who only started taking his craft seriously two years ago, Bernd Huss has attained an extremely high standard and received numerous accolades for his work.

As long as he can remember Bernd has enjoyed drawing. At first he restricted himself to copying photographs of people from magazines always trying to capture as much detail as possible.

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Tanya Finlayson

1 January 2014
Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Birdlife, Carving, Enamel, Featured Artists, Figures, Kiwiana, Painting, Realism

CARVING A NEW FASHION

“Have a goal, have something to achieve and then go and fulfill it. It always a nice feeling to look back on the journey of how you realised your dreams.”

So says Tanya Short, who some may remember as Tanya Finlayson making and selling handmade jewellery and sewing children’s clothing at the Whangarei markets.

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Kim Kerr

1 November 2013
Abstract, Acrylic, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Featured Artists, Mixed Media, Painting, Realism, Still-life, Symbolism

STORY TELLING

Kim Kerr has enjoyed drawing and painting from an early age and expressed a keen interest in studying further. When her art teacher at high school tried to discourage her saying she couldn’t do Fine Arts Prelim in Form 7, she decided to prove him wrong, and enrolled at Art School.

She spent three years at Otago Polytechnic where she obtained a Distinction in a Fine & Applied Arts Diploma. After completing this diploma, Kim went on to study at Teachers College. She spent several years as Head of Art Departments at various secondary schools, teaching art, design and history of art.

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