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
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
