NEWS
Upcoming exhibition: ‘Full Circle’ opens 6pm Friday 29 January 2021, at Mangawhai Artists Gallery.
Wendy Leach and Nicola Everett
Paintings will be available online for sale from 10am Saturday 30 January
Wendy Leach and Nicola Everett
Paintings will be available online for sale from 10am Saturday 30 January
Starting 17 March 2021 I will be teaching Drawing for Beginners at Mangawhai Art Workspace
Wednesday afternoons, 1.30 - 4.30pm
(please note there is only one place left in this course)
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 - 4.30pm
(please note there is only one place left in this course)
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. |
A glimpse at one of my latest works
‘MANGAWHAI POHUTUKAWAS' 2020, Oil paint on gessoed Fabriano paper, 760 x 580 mm. Not currently for sale. This work will be available 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
