NEWS
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MANGAWHAI ART TRAIL - 27 & 28 FEBRUARY - open 10am to 4pm each day.
Find us at VENUE 16, 35 Cheviot St, Mangawhai Heads (click to find on Google maps) My studio will be the venue for the following artists: Wendy Leach (paintings and prints) Theo and Carly Leach (Leach Studio Ceramics) Mel Juer (paintings) Edie Chappell (paintings) |
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‘Full Circle’ exhibition (Friday 29 January - 10 February) has now closed.
It was a great success. See photos from the opening HERE
The remaining paintings and some limited edition prints are available online 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."
It was a great success. See photos from the opening HERE
The remaining paintings and some limited edition prints are available online 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 on canvas, 750 x 1000 mm. $3,850 SOLD
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Limited edition print, 450 x 600mm $495 'Standing Proud'
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Limited edition print, 600 x 450mm $495
'Under Stormy Skies' |
Limited edition print, 600 x 450mm $495
'Mangawhai Pohutukawa' |
Limited edition print, 600 x 450mm $495
'Monochrome 1' |
Limited edition prints are sent by CourierPost free anywhere within New Zealand
Starting 17 March 2021, I will be teaching Drawing for Beginners at Mangawhai Art Workspace
Wednesday afternoons, 1.30 - 4.30 & Wednesday mornings, 9-30 - 12.30
This is a course of 5 classes, running from 17 March until 14 April 2021 (five 3 hour sessions over five weeks)
More information
Wednesday afternoons, 1.30 - 4.30 & Wednesday mornings, 9-30 - 12.30
This is a course of 5 classes, running from 17 March until 14 April 2021 (five 3 hour sessions over five weeks)
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. |
‘MANGAWHAI POHUTUKAWA' 2020, Oil paint on gessoed Fabriano paper, 760 x 580 mm. White frame. $2,850
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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
