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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

 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. 
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)
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'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. 
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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. 
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​This work will be available in my joint exhibition ‘Full Circle’ opening 29 January 2021 at Mangawhai Artists Gallery. 

FEATURED EARLIER WORKS

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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
"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
    Photo August 2020
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ABOUT ME

I 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 
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Photo November 2017
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  • Home
    • Drawing for Beginners
  • About
    • About Me
    • News
    • CV + Exhibition History
    • CONTACT ME
  • NEW WORKS 2019
  • RECENT WORK
    • SMALL WORKS
    • LARGE WORKS
  • RECENT EXHIBITIONS
    • Reviews and articles
  • Pre 2014
  • LIGHT PAINTINGS
    • LIGHT PAINTINGS
    • MFA-THESIS
    • ESSAY BY DR CAROLE SHEPHEARD
  • LANDSCAPES
    • NEW ZEALAND
    • EUROPE
    • JORDAN
  • BLOG