Arts North Elizabeth
  • Home
  • Contact
  • About
  • Art Lessons
  • Life Drawing
  • Bulletins ..
  • Events & Notices
  • Galleries
  • Groups & Classes
  • Links

Not All Art is Created Equal

25/9/2016

1 Comment

 
This was not designed as a 'Work of Art' – it just is!

(I am sure the artist, our Suzanne (Sue) Cluse, held no particular hopes for outcomes/recognition/satisfaction before launching into this, a ten minute 'quickie' at Portrait Practice last week)
Picture
Within the work, the very useful likeness that is displayed should be quite rewarding. The subject, with one unseen foot high on a unseen stool, appears perched a little precariously, perhaps uncomfortably. Again, rewarding. But more than these things, the work says so much about what it set out to do - and about what it didn't need to do.



Sue has allowed herself the freedom not to demand exactness, but to see the whole and to concentrate on capturing it in its essence. Simple to say .. hard to do. Like so much in Art, inspiration tends to come only after much perspiration. The wonderfully engaging 'looseness' of this drawing still demanded close awareness of composition, proportion, perspective, variation, line, tone and depth – and the clock!


I haven't asked, but I hope that this drawing has provided Sue with that little inner elation that comes in the moment that you know that your work has 'worked' and also, perhaps, from knowing that someone else thinks that it has worked. Knowing that Sue has only of recent been actively pursuing this approach, to get an outcome like this must be a real 'buzz' and, rightly, should provide great encouragement.


A ten minute drawing that only took five or six years work. Sometimes, effort rewards...
Well done and congratulations. (Don)




(Post Script:
This web space is available to any member .. proposed content may be 'reviewed' by Arts North)
1 Comment

Arts North's Richard Rogers Workshop

15/9/2016

3 Comments

 
PictureRichard - with initial tonal sketch
 

A very successful workshop! (Full house.) Many thanks to Richard!



Most (all?) of the attendees demonstrated that even on simple matters such as perspective and composition, there was huge scope for improvement and, although Richard, in one day, was not able to turn individuals into virtuosos, he provided one huge take away: "There is nothing that can't be fixed .. no matter how 'bad'!"


His approach? Find the bit that offends you most .. deal with it (correct it, if cause is identifiable;  if not, remove it). Step back .. find the next most grievous offender; correct or remove; .. and so on.
He suggests that the painting that is offending you totally is, in fact, the easiest to rectify .. you can give yourself permission to make BOLD changes ANYWHERE!



For a couple of us, this was a 'first-time' intro to acrylics .. Richard gently took all along together and everybody had the opportunity to explore their subject treatment and, in particular, to question.



The day wound up with a couple of volunteers passing their work to Richard for an 'up-the-front' critique and 'make-over'. Don and Julie were selected and Don, at least, thinks he learnt heaps in just the three or four minutes that it took Richard to 'raise the dead'.
(Click photos below to enlarge)




Picture
Again, "Thank you, Richard."
3 Comments

John Harvey Gallery Exhibition

3/9/2016

0 Comments

 

"Possibly the most impressive exhibition Arts North has mounted to date" (unauthorised quote from Hans Koppan)
​

Picture
Madam Pres doing 'opening' words (not 'shopping bag' .. 'Thank You' gifts!)

​I am sure that all who saw the exhibition would tend to agree with Hans. Along with a high standard of work by Arts North members, I think the Gallery provides a (not perfect, but..) very nice space!  Thank you to Salisbury Council.

And a special vote of thanks to Hans for his act of particular selflessness when allocating hanging space ...

To the judges Annette Dawson and Hazel Harding thank you for the particular efforts that we know judging exacts.
click to enlarge photos above
​

And to the $64 question:
..."and the Arts North Prize-Winning entries for 2016 were":

​Work priced above $400
Picture
Winner - 'Gawler Backyard' - Oil - Gerhard Ritter
Picture
Commendation - 'Areyonga' - Acrylic - Alex Toyne


Work priced $200-$400
(please excuse light artefacts in photos)
Picture
Winner - 'Private Dancer' - Watercolour - Suzanne Cluse
Picture
Commendation - 'Old Vines' - Charcoal/Pastel - Don Meyer


​Work priced below $200

Picture
Winner - 'River Frolics' - Oil - Joy Wright
Picture
Commendation - 'Ballerina' - Watercolour - Lyn Davies


​
Special Mention:  Kids' Classes are going great guns!  One child had work on exhibition at John Harvey Gallery - off to a great start! (A potential member of the 2025 Arts North All-Stars?)

Picture
0 Comments

    May 2025
    October 2024
    May 2024
    March 2024
    July 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    December 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    October 2020
    June 2020
    February 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    May 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    December 2013

click for home