Artists salon

Artists Salon 2016

Artists Salon

7 - 21 March 2016

The gallery calendar opens with the most important exhibition of works held in the last five years. Three years in the planning culminates in a showing of over 60 paintings and artworks by worldclass professional artists. The best, the brightest, the most beautiful from studios around the globe.

Special tribute is paid to the late Belgium born impressionist, Gaston de Vel whose legacy lives on in a vibrant offering of European scenes. Contemporary Italian works contrast with traditional and modern New Zealand landscapes. Wildlife bronzes and three dimensional works from studios in Assisi and Venice fulfill the promise of exotic excellence.

Diarise - Attend - Enjoy

Lawrence Leitch b.1958

In this outstanding work Leitch unites key elements of Auckland, the City of Sails. Yachts cradled ‘on the hard’ at Okahu Bay, masts silhouetted against a summer sky, pohutakawa and flax in bloom. On the horizon line, Rangitoto and North Head, landmarks of the heart and eye.

Lance O’Gorman

The Coromandel’s Opito Bay is one of Dahlberg’s favourite ports of call, one that he has revisited often and a subject which lends itself well to his distinctive surrealistic style. Here, the wide sweep of Opito Bay is surrounded by undulating golden hills between which nestles a wool shed, the only indication of human habitation in this spacious work.

Late Lunch, Hauraki Gulf Oil on board 65 x 181 cm $12,500

Here we have the winning combination of Dahlberg painting one of Auckland’s most recognisable landmarks, Rangitoto. After forty five years in front of the easel, Dahlberg remains New Zealand’s leading surrealist painter. When he turns his gaze, talent and brush to portraying the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, we are presented with a modern day heirloom. From a green, tree-clad foreground the eye travels across an expanse of blue to the light and shade of Browns Island. Wind-filled sails remind us of Auckland’s nautical love affair beneath a trademark Dahlberg textured sky.

Direct from ItalyCarlo Mirabasso b.1959

Sunday Afternoon, The Farm House Oil on canvas 100 x 120 cm $7,250

South Island splendor is showcased by Dunedin born artist, Simon Williams, in this large-scale oil painting. The headwaters of the alpine braided Tasman River flow from Mount Cook National Park to the Tasman and Murchison glaciers. The river flows south for 25 kilometres from the Southern Alps into the top of glacial Lake Pukaki. On the horizon, snow-capped Mount Cook, New Zealand’s highest mountain completes a composition which both pays tribute and does justice to a scene of incomparable beauty.

Szydlowski

Szydlowski continues to fascinate by creating art ‘to make you smile’. A professional artist for over three decades his work attracts international acclaim with a world-wide clientele. These two small masterpieces from the Valley Series offer a harmonious synthesis of elements and symbols from the world of Szydlowski. Paintings that welcome, inspire and intrigue the viewer.

In this latest vibrant offering Treloar delivers colour, texture, light and shade in confident, broad brushstrokes. A backdrop of turquoise, white-capped waves falling upon impasto sands of gold, re-create the nostalgia and warmth of a Coromandel summer. These are paintings of childhood days both past and present. Paintings celebrating and commemorating friendship. Treloar captures the salt-sea breeze, the warmth of the day and the focused exuberance of youth.

Frances Davies - Director

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