cast glass studio sale

Sunday 29 November 10am til 2pm

Art Studio Open Day in Three Kings

Saturday 12th December 2009
12 noon to 5.30pm.

* Dagmar Andres-Dahmen
* Carolyn Milbank
* Sarah Stuart
* Jo Dalgety
* Sue Thomas
* Sue Hellings
* Jane Thorne
* Amy MacKinnon

An opportunity to explore a recently created workspace, to view the artworks and talk with the artists.The works cover a wide range of media; watercolour, oils, acrylic, photography and 3D contemporary art.

The collective was formed following the attendance at university and community art courses and is designed to provide the artists with a supportive working environment within the community.

Painting, drawing, sculpture and photography on display/for sale.

Come along on the afternoon of Saturday 12th to enjoy the art and the refreshments.

Dornwell Studios
First Floor, Access Ezy Building
35B Dornwell Road, Three Kings

Dornwell Studios Open Day

The group who share the space at 35c Dornwell Three Kings are being brave and having an open day – Saturday 12th December 12 – 5.30pm. An excellent range of work – paintings, sculptures and installations. Some will have work for sale, some preparing for exhibitions. Come along and take a look if you want.

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What I’m Reading Now… The Lacuna

‘You had better write all this in your notebook, she said, the story of what happened to us in Mexico. So when nothing is left of us but bones, someone will know where we went.’ Born in the US, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is mostly a liability to his social-climbing mother, Salome. From a coastal island jungle to the unpaved neighbourhoods of 1930s Mexico City, his fortunes never steady as Salome finds her rich men-friends always on the losing side of the Mexican Revolution. He aims for invisibility, observing his world and recording everything with a peculiar selfless irony in his notebooks.

Life is whatever he learns from servants putting him to work in the kitchen, errands he runs in the streets, and one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Making himself useful in the household of the muralist, his wife Frida Kahlo, and exiled Bolshevik leader Lev Trotsky, young Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot in with art and revolution.

A violent upheaval sends him north to a nation newly caught up in the internationalist goodwill of World War II. In Carolina, he remakes himself in America’s hopeful image. Under the watch of his peerless stenographer, Violet Brown, he finds an extraordinary use for his talents of observation. But political winds continue to push him between north and south, in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach – the lacuna – between truth and public presumption.

The Lacuna is a gripping story of identity, connection with our past, and the power of words to create or devastate. Crossing two decades, from the vibrant revolutionary murals of Mexico City to the halls of a Congress bent on eradicating the colour red, The Lacuna is as deep and rich as the New World itself.

Barbara Kingsolver was born in 1955 and grew up in eastern Kentucky. Her books include poetry, non-fiction and award-winning fiction, and in 1999 she was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for The Poisonwood Bible.

Only at page 50 but already enjoying it! Since the The Poisonwood Bible, I’ve read anything that Barbara Kingsolver has wriitten. And intrigued to see this book involves artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.

AUT Visual Arts Graduating Exhibition Invite

Visual Arts Graduating Exhibition

5th floor of the WM Block at 40 St Paul St., Auckland.

Opening night: 12 Nov, 5-8pm

Laxmi Jhunjhnuwala is exhibiting – see www.laxmijhunjhnuwala.com

Artstation 2010 Year Long Courses

• Artstation Foundation course
• The Painter’s Studio
• Four Acts in the Theatre of Clay
• The Painter’s Progress
• A Glass Studio

See www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/artstation

OLD SCHOOL / NEW SCHOOL: SUMMER SCHOOL: 4th – 8th JANUARY 2010

Just letting you know that in January 2010, Old School/New School with Peter Gibson Smith will be running as a 5 day summer school class: Monday 4th – Friday 8th, 10.00am – 4.30pm daily. It covers the same material as the 6 week course but in a 5 day format (see www.artmade.co.nz for details). The fee is the same as the 6 week course, $450.00, however a $30 discount is offered for payments received before Friday 11th December, 2009.

Also… the last “Vinyl Cutting for Artists” workshop begins next Thursday 12th November. Still places left if you’re interested.

Vincent van Gogh – The Letters

http://vangoghletters.org/vg/

The background to this edition: the Van Gogh Letters Project. All the surviving letters written and received by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are contained in this edition of his correspondence.

Dartmoor finished …

Penzance 2009 oil on linen

I’ve finished another smaller painting that will be exhibited The Little Gallery in Tairua.  This one is a seascape of Penzance. I am very pleased with it – brings back  memories  for me too while I was painting it, all good.

 

Hauptallee 2009

And the framing for the ‘Hauptallee’ painting is ready, so that painting will go down to The Little Gallery in Tairua as well. This one is an oil on gesso (old-fashioned gesso) on board.

 

A good set of four I feel, showing my work. I have also finished two more larger paintings (1200×900) but will keep them until my exhibition in February – one of the North York Moors and one of Dartmoor.

New art gallery in Tairua

Englischer Garten

Berewic

Paula MacNeill has opened ‘The Little Gallery of Fine Arts’ in Tairua’s main street. The jam-packed opening was on Saturday 24th, and all looks great. Two of my paintings are being shown and I will take down another for their stock this weekend coming. There is painters including Michael Smither, sculptors, weavers and jewellers. The sculptors have a garden to display their work.

It was hard to view the work well with the crowd on the weekend, but I will take a good look this coming weekend. I’ll mention some of the artists in future blogs and show some of their work.

Painters: Paula McNeill, Pam Plummer, Susan Dunster, Nicky Hartley, Liz Hart, Airdrie Hamilton, Joanne Mahoney, Amanda Ewing, Lucy Horne, Trish Barnett, Jill Cameron, Ray Neumann, Wendy Mikkelsen, Kate Hill, Tanya Paton, Catherine Outwin, Sam Rogers, Tineke Slomp, Merian Townsen, Verena Tagmann.

Sculptors: Christine Hatton, Dave Fowell, Bruno Gaebler, Ian Thorne, Tim Holman, Betty Collings, Judy Meehl, Pam Plummer, Ian Webster, Gary Nevin, Tim Aldrich, Jan Kocian, GlassART.

Weavers: Anne Hay-Smith, Janet Clissold, Lisa McKendry.

Jewellers: Kate Ewing, Vicky Hunt, Askoru, Jemma Gregory.