NEWS
Upcoming exhibition: ‘Full Circle’ opens 6pm Friday 29 January 2021, at Mangawhai Artists Gallery.
Wendy Leach and Nicola Everett
Wendy Leach and Nicola Everett
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My painting 'Summer Cottage' 2001
This is an art project set by relieving teacher Katrina Taylor for Year 4, 5 and 6 students from St Patrick's and St Catherine classes, St Leo's Catholic School, Devonport, Auckland. "Students are given a postage stamp size/piece of the artwork, which they then attempt to enlarge their piece to recreate the work. They do not know what the picture is, until all the enlargements have been completed! (as they go up in random order, i.e. whoever has finished their piece first). |
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Starting 20 October I will be teaching Oil Painting with Alkyd Oil Paint an 8 week course at Mangawhai Art Workspace
More information.
More information.
Opposites inform every part of my work. I explore the possibilities of working with opposites: dark - light, cool - warm, black - white, conceal - reveal, absence - presence, opaque - translucent, push - pull, yin - yang.
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
The inspiration for this painting 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 painting 'SOURCE' is loosely influenced by a NASA satellite photograph of the Tasman Glacier area in the Southern Alps of Aotearoa New Zealand. |
A glimpse at my latest work ‘POHUTUKAWA MANGAWHAI’ 2020, Oil paint on gessoed Fabriano paper, 760 x 580 mm. Not currently for sale.
This work will be exhibited in my joint exhibition ‘Full Circle’ opening 29 January 2021 at Mangawhai Artists Gallery. |
FEATURED EARLIER WORKS
DRIFT, 2017 - acrylic paint on canvas, 1200 x 1200 mm SOLD
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ELEMENTS, 2018 - acrylic paint on canvas, 1200 x 1200 mm NFS
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"Leach’s new works explode with abstract energy, new vigour and freedom after an extended European sojourn. Her approach is intuitive - she paints autonomously, free from external influence - avoiding subject and genre yet there is structure, line and rhythm. Her mark making skills are strong as she plays with swirls, splashes and drips - perhaps evoking Pollock and Kandinsky". Review, February 2018
