CHARCOAL DRAWING WORKSHOP
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Full day workshop focusing on the technique of Subtractive Charcoal Drawing
9.30 - 4.30pm, Saturday 31 July at Mangawhai Art Workspace, 45 Moir St, Mangawhai Mangawhai is approximately 90 minutes drive from Auckland and 50 minutes from Whangarei. All workshop information here |
Tutored course
FINDING YOUR ARTISTIC IDENTITY
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Programme of 4 weekly sessions focusing on Finding your Artistic Identity
Sunday afternoons, 3.00 - 5.30pm, 8, 15, 22 & 29 August at Cheviot Street, Mangawhai Heads Maximum participants: 8 Each of us is a unique individual. I will be facilitating a programme of four 2-hour sessions aimed at helping you, as artists, produce your best work through finding your own artistic identity and direction. This course will be aimed at artists who are working independently or wanting to work independently - those who have embarked on the journey to become practicing artists. All course information here |
‘Full Circle’ exhibition (Friday 29 January - 10 February) was a great success. See photos from the opening HERE
The paintings and exhibition catalogue can be seen HERE
"Alongside the challenges 2020 brought to the world, Wendy Leach found beauty and hope in painting the splendid pohutukawa trees along Mangawhai’s ocean beach. She found strength in the dramatic tree forms, energy in the swirling coastal skies and inspiration in the changing light."
The paintings and exhibition catalogue can be seen HERE
"Alongside the challenges 2020 brought to the world, Wendy Leach found beauty and hope in painting the splendid pohutukawa trees along Mangawhai’s ocean beach. She found strength in the dramatic tree forms, energy in the swirling coastal skies and inspiration in the changing light."
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'Stormy Light' 2020, Oil paint on canvas, 750 x 1000 mm. $3,850 SOLD
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'Standing Proud' 900 X 1200mm, oil paint on canvas, $4,500 SOLD Limited edition print available, 450 x 600mm $495
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'Under Stormy Skies' 1000 X 750mm, oil paint on stretched canvas, $3,850 SOLD
Limited edition print available, 600 x 450mm $495 |
'Mangawhai Pohutukawa' 760 X 570mm, oil paint on gessoed Fabriano, white frame, $2,850
Limited edition print available, 600 x 450mm $495 |
'Monochrome 1' 1000 X 750mm, oil paint on stretched canvas, $3,850 SOLD
Limited edition print available, 600 x 450mm $495 |
Limited edition prints are sent by CourierPost free anywhere within New Zealand
Dynamic movement. "There is movement and there is movement. There are movements of small tension and movements of great tension and there is also a movement which our eyes cannot catch although it can be felt. In art this state is called dynamic movement. This special movement was utilised by the futurists as a new and hitherto unknown phenomenon in art..."
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1878 – 1935)
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1878 – 1935)
'SOURCE’ 2019, Oil paint on canvas, 1000 x 1000 mm. $2,850
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‘FLUX' 2019, Oil paint on canvas, 1000 x 1000 mm. $2,850
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The inspiration for these paintings lies in imagery around elements of land and sea, coastal estuaries and tidal flow, deltas and rivers; constantly in flux, changing environments due to nature’s rhythms, tidal cycles and weather patterns. The paintings 'SOURCE' and 'FLUX' are loosely influenced by NASA satellite photography.
An email from Israel
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22 January 2021
Hi Wendy! my name is Michal, and i'm writing to you from Israel. Im 24 yo and studying architecture and design. As part of my first year final project, i've been asked to make an interview with an artist that i choose. after i traveld New Zealand two years ago it became one of my favorite places in the whole world and i knew i wanted to make the interview with a kiwi artist. so i found your website and in a second it brought me back to that time when i traveled and was so amazed by everything I saw. I wanted to ask you if i could show your art work in front my class and my lecturer, and that i ask you a few questions about you and your art. If you're okay with doing the interview i would love to hear from you! ...thank you! michal 7 March 2021
Hi Wendy... Besides the questions I asked you, I've been asked to write my opinion about your art, what I learned from it and why I chose you as the artist I interviewed. I wrote that in my opinion, your art is characterized with flow, colorfulness and movements. The way you use the paintbrush makes the nature in your landscapes look alive and like it's in constant movement, and that in your abstract paintings I loved that I could actually see the texture of the paint, and some of the layers above others, it gave them another dimension and depth in my eyes. I wrote that I think your paintings are balanced, even though they contain contrasts, and are dynamic in terms of composition. And that it shows that the inspiration comes from nature. I wrote that your paintings brought me back to my trip in NZ and all the good and beautiful memories I had came back to me. I learned how great it is to have the ability to make people feel emotions by looking at your art. Thank you for helping me with this project and honestly reminding me with your art how magical is the nature in New Zealand, I missed it so much! ☺ Michal . |
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Photo August 2020
ABOUT MEI am a painter and multi-disciplinary artist.
My current paintings are large, energetic and visually powerful. I am a graduate of both Elam School of Fine Arts (DipFA) and Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design (MFA 1st class Hons). I am also a qualified high school teacher (DipTchg). I live in Mangawhai Heads, Northland Aotearoa New Zealand |
Photo November 2017
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