Len Lye

Another great day on my art course. This morning an exercise on using our other senses, other than sight, and drawing. Firstly we read a piece of writing from Len Lye about his childhood and his senses (from Happy Moments). We then had to pick a sense, spend 15 minutes concentrating on that sense and [...]

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Bad Art or bad art?

An 1997 article by Philip Hensher in ‘Modern Painters’ magazine provided a good group discussion this week.  Talking about bad art being popular, and what distinguished Bad Art from bad art.  And we were all left wondering, are we doing bad art or Bad Art?
Matthew was the tutor this week, and after an introductory week last [...]

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Painter’s Studio Started

A great first day. Two tutors to take us through the year, Kathryn Stevens and Matthew Browne. Two new students into our group, one from Switzerland. Matthew and Kathryn gave us a presentation of their work, both very different, and where it comes from, why they paint. A few blind drawing exercises to get us [...]

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Exhibition at Governor’s Gallery

The dates have been set for an upcoming exhibition in the Governor’s Gallery, Old Government House, Auckland University. 1st April is opening night and then it runs from 2nd April till 11th March. I have seven paintings ready to go and my alotted space will fit those 7 comfortably.
The two fellow artists are Gayle Macduff [...]

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