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Over the last 25 years the growth of Internet and the social media have irrevocably changed the face of the modern…
Artists Easels
A GUIDE TO EASELS A decent studio easel is a long term investment, and should offer you stability and flexibility. You…
Giclée Printing
GOING GICLÉE Giclée (pronounced zeeclay) art prints produced by artists in New Zealand are becoming increasingly popular and more widely available…
Packing for Post
HOW DO YOU ENSURE YOUR PRECIOUS CREATIONS WILL REACH THEIR DESTINATION UNHARMED? Shipping your artwork can be a stressful process no…
Carol Laubscher
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.
Rebekah Codlin
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.
Karen Panton
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.”
Ron Stenberg
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.
Creative Burnout
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
GETTING YOUR TONAL VALUES RIGHT “Tonal values are critical. The lights and darks contribute more to the success of a painting’s…