King Street Gallery on William - Leo Robba and Arkaba Station

Oh dear, it was quite packed and I had a bit of difficulty getting through the crowd while filming my sweep and even taking photo’s got a bit hard...

Arkaba Station in the Flinders Rangers held a commanding landscape for 3 artists from the King Street Gallery stable... Leo Robba with his soft muted paintings of many trees and cliff faces... Joanna Logue and her misty blurry images of the dark green landscape, I think my favourite was ‘Rain - On the way to Arkaba Station’ and her beautiful sketch books, Wendy Sharpe with her ‘to die for’ tiny gouaches and her concertina books are a must to see... And I want one!!!

The Gallery was split in 2 to also hold Leo Robba’s fist solo with this gallery, Humanising the Landscape is a collection of amusing architectural shaped hedge paintings... My favourite’s would be ‘Red with big Hedge’ with it’s bitten edge, ‘Cherry Doughnut, Kingswood, Western Sydney’ he hit the nail on the head with the perspective in that one... and the moody ‘Burning bush between Black Pines’...

If you live in Sydney and haven't seen this shows then you best get to it...

Written by Fleur

8th February - 5th March 2011
www.kingstreetgallery.com.au

Damien Minton Gallery - Peter Gardiner & Myfanwy Gullifer

A really lovely afternoon opening on a wet Saturday... with tea and cake and a bit of bubbly!!!

Myfanwy Gullifer in the project room showing off her wild sense of imagination and laugh out loud humour.... particularly funny is the 'There was a bed bug in the Chelsea'... Intense,  brightly coloured descriptive,  delicate ceramics...

Thinking of China, Sketching Morocco, Remembering the Grampians,  new landscape paintings by Peter Gardiner...  Moody and breathtakingly beautiful!!!...   I became a big fan of Peter's after seeing his entry for this year's Gallipoli Art Prize....  He should have won!!!

Here is an Artist,  not afraid to paint the landscape in it's bleakest light,  of raging storms and rugged landscapes...  Deep,  dark and  melancholy...  Or maybe I'm gushing a bit.... Well,  they are beautiful and soon I will have one hanging on my wall....

written by fleur

29th September - 16th October 2010
www.damienmintongallery.com.au

Ray Hughes Gallery - Lucy Culliton

With Jimmy on holidays, I'm left holding the mantle for a good THREE weeks!!!

And most excited about being invited by a close friend to this show and meeting Lucy for the first time.

I do love a good landscape show, sorry that should have said "fantastic landscape show"!

Lucy's painting's gave me the feeling as if I was there breathing in the fresh country air. With her descriptive seasonal changes and getting all excited when it snowed the first time, yes I understand I probably would have done the same thing. The need to capture a moment in time is of the up most importance in a painter's life. The flurry and excitement and anxiety, with smiley faced dogs in toe to help move things along, gave her great haste. To produce an abundance of beautiful paintings.

I could gush forever over these works!

23rd October - 18th November 2009
www.rayhughesgallery.com

Salmon Galleries-Lyn Burns, Helen Davies & Yvonne Langshaw

So Saturday afternoon we're off to the Dark Side...

Group show called Studio 7 coming from George Gittoes Master Classes

Now we have never really understood George Gittoes since the non official War Artist went off to War, it all seemed to be a little bit "look at me".

What a pleasure it was to meet Gabrielle Dalton, we had one of the loveliest conversations and look forward to meeting her again.

We are usually comfortably stuck in our rutt in the eastern suburbs and it's always nice to be reminded that art is made and the sun shines in other places as well...













































www.salmongalleries.com.au

King St Gallery on William-Idris Murphy-I-Thou

The forest with no trees, there was so many people there, you could not see the paintings which means Idris is very popular.

Jimmy's first painting teacher, so very very biased but no real need to be because the work gets more and more interesting.

We both need to revisit the show as we couldn't see anything for the number of people we couldn't get near to and wanted to talk to.

That damn glass cleaner didn't turn up, which means we couldn't get a drink.

www.kingstgallery.com.au