exhibitions
current exhibition
Raylee Williams 1 November – 21 December
Opening: Saturday 1 November 4pm - 6pmWhat a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it. - Vincent van Gogh
Watercolour painting is a medium where one must be accepting of the flows of chance, of what unfolds when the brush touches the paper, when wet meets dry. Norman Lindsay wrote "We find out methods by experiment and failure, and no one can lay down precise principles for a medium so fluid and accidental as watercolour. To this day I never sit down to a watercolour without enduring the suspense of an experiment designed to go wrong."
Raylee's still life compositions and outdoor garden scenes find inspiration and beauty in domestic interiors and everyday backdrops and transform these subjects into stunning pictorial imagery.
With the clear, vibrant transparency of watercolour, Raylee enjoys the fact that you are never quite in control of the medium and she welcomes the exciting adventures that the medium takes her on. Things happen when you mix water and pigment on paper – sometimes beautiful things which are wonderful and sometimes things which may not really be what you were hoping for and that's the magic of it. Colour, tones, light and dark shadows become your constant companions, although in watercolour less is often more. Just giving the suggestion of something to the viewer is often all that is required and the eye of the viewer does the rest.
Raylee states, the only thing I want to convey through my painting is beauty, glowing colour and transparent light. I want the viewer to instantly know what I have painted, to enjoy and be uplifted.
recent events
Penny Jacobs
Opening: 6 September 4pm-6pm
Exhibition dates: 6 September - 24 October
Big Art Small Viewer - Children's Art Exhibition
Opening: Sunday 31 August 12 noon
Andrew Antoniou
Exhibition dates: 2008
Andrew Antoniou Workshop
Drawing from the self is drawing from the imagination, that which is remembered, invented and dreamt.
The specific aim of this workshop is to build your own personal narrative from a grouping of everyday concepts and objects.
In this class you will be looking at aspects of recall and how you affect those memories with your own particular vision and sensibility.
You will also be focussing on how we as people and artists interpret those things we see and read as well as remember. Working in simple materials you will explore mark making and image forming that is challenging and joyful. This weekend workshop will give you very simple processes to help you in your art practice in the future as well as providing you with a rewarding experience.
