Watercolour and Gouache on paper Signed 2021 710w x 475h   It was during the “Lock Down” of Covid19 that I started painting from the collection of photographs, that I have recorded for the past several years of the container arrangements down at the Mount Yacht Club looking across the water to the Portside of Tauranga. Whether you like them or not, these are iconic visual trademarks of our local landscape. As a local artist, my objective is to demonstrate with this exhibition; work based on my observations of the containers, which are in a sense - visual arrangements of colour in both structure, pattern and form. Whilst I was ‘contained’ in my parents’ home, I began to contemplate whilst painting these squares of colour, how we were all confined to our spatial boxes with our emotions. I began to see the compositions as communities of people all contained in our own confined spaces and so the concept of containment expanded. Parallels can be drawn from a series I did 20 years ago based on the typical corrugated iron farm shed with the colourful arrangements of patch working. Therefore, I can state that a relationship of colour and pattern and their organization on the landscape provides a creative impetus for me to paint something so ordinary into something beautiful. Alice Blackley

Contemporary
- Works for Sale

12 AUGUST, 2020

Watercolour and Gouache on paper

Signed 2021

710w x 475h

 

It was during the “Lock Down” of Covid19 that I started painting from the collection of photographs, that I have recorded for the past several years of the container arrangements down at the Mount Yacht Club looking across the water to the Portside of Tauranga. Whether you like them or not, these are iconic visual trademarks of our local landscape. As a local artist, my objective is to demonstrate with this exhibition; work based on my observations of the containers, which are in a sense - visual arrangements of colour in both structure, pattern and form.

Whilst I was ‘contained’ in my parents’ home, I began to contemplate whilst painting these squares of colour, how we were all confined to our spatial boxes with our emotions. I began to see the compositions as communities of people all contained in our own confined spaces and so the concept of containment expanded.

Parallels can be drawn from a series I did 20 years ago based on the typical corrugated iron farm shed with the colourful arrangements of patch working. Therefore, I can state that a relationship of colour and pattern and their organization on the landscape provides a creative impetus for me to paint something so ordinary into something beautiful.

$1,000.00

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