Month: January 2010

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Paula McNeill, Tairua artist

Jo Dalgety

Colour and movement are important components in Paula’s work, offering dazzling colour contrasts. The subject and composition in her paintings vary. Paula is the main drive behind the Little Gallery of Fine Arts in Tairua, and until recently ran workshops on the Coromandel Peninsula. She exhibits widely and most recently at NorthArt in November 2009. I’ve attended three of her workshops with our Hikuai Art Group, and all have been good learning and great fun. You can see a selection of Paula’s work here. I thought I would feature each of the artists from The Little Gallery in Tairua so … Continue reading Paula McNeill, Tairua artist

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Little Gallery of Fine Arts in Tairua, Coromandel Peninsula

Jo Dalgety

‘a must to visit tucked behind Manaia Gallery and featuring over 40 outstanding artists.’ with painting, sculpture, jewellery, weaving and prints. I dropped in when I was down in Tairua for Christmas and it looks great! Two of my works were sitting on the easel and they looked good, very pleased with them – there was no ‘oh no’ feeeling! And apparently there has been great comments and murmurings about my painting ‘Berewic’, which I consider one of my best! Featured Painters Paula McNeill, Pam Plummer, Susan Dunster, Nicky Hartley, Liz Hart, Airdrie Hamilton, Joanne Mahoney, Amanda Ewing, Lucy Horne, … Continue reading Little Gallery of Fine Arts in Tairua, Coromandel Peninsula

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Landscape Paintings of New Zealand: A Journey from North to South

Jo Dalgety

A great book I received for my birthday in October. I have just finished looking at all plates and pages and thoroughly enjoyed this journey theorugh New Zealand in paintings.  I’ll start again now and study each artist in more depth as I go. The Fishpond review explains the format exactly. “viewing New Zealand … through the eyes of the country’s greatest landscape painters, from Gully to Frizzell, Angus to Palmer. Drawn from public and private collections, these 100 beautiful and significant landscape paintings, both traditional and contemporary, range through the New Zealand landscape,from north to south, covering every region … Continue reading Landscape Paintings of New Zealand: A Journey from North to South

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Into the New Year

Jo Dalgety

A great start to the New Year and into the studio every day since I’ve been back from a short Christmas break. My main priority is getting everything sorted for the exhibition in February with Amy MacKinnon. But the longer hours mean I can also get more sorted at the studio – papers, books, space. I am normally there by myself as everyone else must be on vacation still, but Sue Thomas is coming in in the afternoon and I leave her to the aloneness about 3-4pm. Five large paintings are complete and three watercolours chosen for framing as soon … Continue reading Into the New Year