Landscape Archives - Page 7 of 8

Geoff Noble

1 March 2015
Acrylic, Animals, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Drawing, Expressionism, Featured Artists, Figures, Hyper Realism, Landscape, Nature, Painting, Pop Art, Portraits, Realism, Seascape, Street Art, Surrealism

FREEDOM AND MOVEMENT

There is a lot of paint and colour, lots of colour. Bright, vibrant and even startling. And movement, always movement, large bold images leap out demanding attention, captured but seemingly not, on the cusp of rising and falling but nowhere near frozen.

There are paintings all over the place when entering a very cluttered Tahuna Studios in Nelson. Some are complete, overs still in that moment of creation. New and old it is an eclectic mix. Added to this are posters, surfboards, skateboards, and all manner of tools.

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Ben Timmins

1 March 2015
Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Birdlife, Featured Artists, Hyper Realism, Landscape, Oils, Painting, Realism, Seascape

Charles Lyle

1 January 2015
Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Aviation, Birdlife, Featured Artists, Landscape, Oils, Painting, Realism, Seascape

A PROLIFIC TALENT

Born in Rotorua, Charles Lyle is a straight-up, 'look-you-the-eye-and tell-you-like-it-is' type of man. It’s all good. This multi-award winning Kerikeri-based artists reflections on a bygone era of cars, tractors and motorbikes takes one back to a time when things were somehow more simple and direct, quieter with none of the frenetic rush of the times in which are living right now.

Of course, there is a harsher reality Charles’ work, particularly in his interpretations of aeroplanes and ships from both World Wars and which have proved immensely popular to collectors of this genre.

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Jodie Marlow

1 January 2015
Animals, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Featured Artists, Impressionism, Landscape, Oils, Painting, Pastels, Portraits, Street Scenes

VIBRANT COLOUR

“When I am happy the people in my life are happy.” says landscape artist Jodie Marlow. Whangarei-born Jodie is happiest when she is painting. “I love how it makes me feel so alive, it gives me the ability to express who I am as a person.”

Jodie has been painting and drawing her entire life, attending many after-school art classes and achieving a cracking 98 percent for her final school art certificate. From 1990-1993 she studied for a diploma in fashion design in her hometown of Whangarei.

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Bari Duncan

1 November 2014
Acrylic, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Birdlife, Featured Artists, Floral, Landscape, Nature, Painting, Pastels, Realism, Seascape

A DRIVING FORCE

After trying various work prospects, such as clerical, retail,
bank and so on, Bari Duncan finally decided to follow her
lifelong passion. “Right from pre-school,” she reflects, “my mother couldn’t keep up with my lust for colouring-in books. I have always longed to follow my heart and get focused on my painting. I just kept pushing, struggling, learning and trying until the time was right.”

Having been dealt a number of blows on her journey, Bari reflects, “My art is everything to me, it’s who I am, a driving force. I love that it has helped me through the hardest, roughest times in my life and when it seemed everything around was crumbling, it kept me focused and positive.” On the subject of education, she has not attended art school or university.

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Melissa Wallace

1 September 2014
Acrylic, Artists, Birdlife, Contemporary Art, Featured Artists, Landscape, Oils, Painting, Realism

MY LIFE IS COMPLETE

Taupo Artist Melissa Wallace has had a journey of self discovery since having a chance discussion with a fellow mother at the net ball courts just over 10 years ago.

It was the seemingly standard question of “what do you do?” that started it all. The answer was “I’m a full time artist.” That day, and an invite home for coffee while a painting was being completed for a deadline, was the beginning of Melissa’s journey, finding her way home to that which makes her life complete.

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Brian Millard

1 September 2014
Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Featured Artists, Impressionism, Landscape, Painting, Realism, Seascape, Watercolour

IN HIS OWN WORDS

Brian Millard, who has been successfully exhibiting paintings since he was in his early twenties, won a scholarship to art school when he was eleven years old but left for a job in advertising at the age of sixteen. Since then he has successfully combined being both artist and writer.

He has been a graphic designer, an illustrator, a cartoonist, an advertising art director, a copywriter, a writer for television and radio, a TV producer, a journalist and the editor in chief of two magazines - one a sports magazine in the States. For a decade he and his partner Marilyn Palmer, also a respected watercolourist, ran their own gallery near Queenstown. They now live and paint in Auckland.

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Sam Earp

1 September 2014
Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Featured Artists, Landscape, Oils, Painting, Realism, Seascape

THE CALL OF THE SEA

Despite drawing and painting landscape scenes and trees in watercolour since he was a child, a bad grade in the sixth form put Samuel Earp off pursuing a career in art and he went to university where he studied plant sciences.

Born in Guernsey, Samuel’s first job was in London. Not enjoying either London or earning much money, he took up painting again for something to do. He visited a gallery in Exeter and saw the amazing seascape by Cornish artist, Peter Cosslett.

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Kathryn Millard

1 July 2014
Acrylic, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Birdlife, Expressionism, Featured Artists, Impressionism, Landscape, Nature, Oils, Painting, Pastels, Seascape, Still-life

THE INNER ARTIST

It is an intense and intimate relationship and interaction with the world around her that feeds Kathryn Millard’s artistic soul.

“My life is about energy, rhythm and sensation, and translating that into a piece of art,” she declares. “It is about inventing the perfect technique, my own unique language for my response to nature. It is the experience of what I see happening all around me that stimulates me and gets me going, not the thing itself, that is the underlying subject of my work.”

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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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Landscape

Geoff Noble

FREEDOM AND MOVEMENT

There is a lot of paint and colour, lots of colour. Bright, vibrant and even startling. And movement, always movement, large bold images leap out demanding attention, captured but seemingly not, on the cusp of rising and falling but nowhere near frozen.

Ben Timmins

THE NATURAL

Three time winner of the ‘People’s Choice’ award at the NZ Art Show, Ben Timmins is a well-known ‘natural artist’ working out of his studio in Parapara, Golden Bay. In this article he talks about his life, work and penchant for ‘un-learning’.

Charles Lyle

A PROLIFIC TALENT

Jodie Marlow

VIBRANT COLOUR

“When I am happy the people in my life are happy.” says landscape artist Jodie Marlow. Whangarei-born Jodie is happiest when she is painting. “I love how it makes me feel so alive, it gives me the ability to express who I am as a person.”

Bari Duncan

A DRIVING FORCE

Melissa Wallace

MY LIFE IS COMPLETE

Taupo Artist Melissa Wallace has had a journey of self discovery since having a chance discussion with a fellow mother at the net ball courts just over 10 years ago.

Brian Millard

IN HIS OWN WORDS

Brian Millard, who has been successfully exhibiting paintings since he was in his early twenties, won a scholarship to art school when he was eleven years old but left for a job in advertising at the age of sixteen. Since then he has successfully combined being both artist and writer.

Sam Earp

THE CALL OF THE SEA

Despite drawing and painting landscape scenes and trees in watercolour since he was a child, a bad grade in the sixth form put Samuel Earp off pursuing a career in art and he went to university where he studied plant sciences.

Kathryn Millard

THE INNER ARTIST

It is an intense and intimate relationship and interaction with the world around her that feeds Kathryn Millard’s artistic soul.

Pauline Allomes

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.