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Nicola Prinsen's quirky bronze sculpture, "Snow Plow" lounges in front of a new display of Nicholas Bott paintings.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Renato Muccillo's Winner
Renato Muccillo's "Autumn Stillness" was honoured with First Place in the 2009 Torrit Grey painting competition, hosted annually by the paint manufacturer Gamblin.
The competition, open to all artists, requires entrants to produce a painting using ONLY Gamblin's Torrit Grey, and black & white artists' paint.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
In the Gallery
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Min Ma's "Misty Morning" is elegantly framed in a traditional ornate gold frame. A soft gold frame also compliments his smaller piece titled "Afternoon Storm". The bamboo on Geoff Searle's pit-fired pottery vases allude to the organic nature and textures of Laurie Rolland's hand-built ceramic piece "Long Black Raft".
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Creative Inspiration
How does inspiration from this stone sculpture "Good View from White Rock Bluff" by Vance Theoret morph into a snowboard?
When artist Peter Wyse was visiting the gallery, he was captivated and intrigued by one of Vance's bears. In particular this bear was looking down from a perch on a white stone base. Peter has been working on a series of bear and polar bear paintings. This curious bear inspired him to paint "Conundrum", an image of a polar bear wondering where all the ice is going.
Later on a friend of his who designs snowboards wanted to use his painting for a new design. Currently the design is still being finalized, but here is an idea of what the board might eventually turn out to be.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Ushering in the new year
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This week we are all getting back into the swing of things at the gallery. New work is starting to arrive from our artists. This means that over the next few days we will be rehanging our walls. We can't wait to see everyone!
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