...you could paint in Auckland or Wellington now - Max Gimblett

Auckland, NZ

Kim Hill
Did you always know you had to go to New York? Was that your ultimate destination? Why?

Max Gimblett
It was the crossroads…having come from New Zealand & started painting late in life I had to get as quickly as possible to the crossroads of information about painting & the paintings in museums because you can’t learn about painting in books, you have to actually see the paintings & then you have to try & copy them…you have to try to do them & fail & gradually trial & error move towards your own utterance…so I had to be in New York. We’re talking the 60’s - you wouldn’t have to be to be in New York now - you could paint in Auckland or Wellington now. I think.

Audio from Saturday 24 May 2008 – Transcribed from interview with Kim Hill, Radio NZ
Max Gimblett: Painting in NYC

Wellington, NZ

I have recently visited both Auckland & Wellington. It was good to walk around the cities alone & have time to think about what I was seeing.

Contributing Artists - Plunket Art Show 2008

Now I Lay me Down to Sleep (I) detail
Elizabeth Love
May 2008
Mixed media on canvas
1020x1020x35mm


Hamish Allan
Philip Beadle
Madeleine Child
Pia Davie
Lori Davis
Michelle Domett
Susan Edge
Clark Esplin
Steve Fitt & Tony Hopping
Andrew Firth
Steve Fullmer
Rachael Garland
Hope Gibbons
Fiona Goulding
Laura Gregory
Rachael Hirabayashi
Jan Harper
Paul Hughson
Katherine Kovacs
Vivian Keenan
Elizabeth Love
Cheryl Lucas & Chris Weaver
Kelvin McMillan
Jeanine Oxenius
Jane Pierce
Katherine Quinn
Elissa Ramsay
Ben Reid
Megan Ribotton
Wayne Ross
Tania Stevens
Jane Tootill
Jenufa Waiti
Ben Woollcombe

Please Touch

Red Gold (VII)
May 2008
Mixed media on canvas
510x510x35mm
SOLD

Work included in Feature Exhibition to celebrate the launch of the Aoraki Art Guide 08/09
South Canterbury Club
Thursday 29 & Friday 30 May, 10am - 4pm, Saturday 31 May, 10am - 3pm
(Exhibition opening Friday evening - general public sales from Friday)

Red Gold (VII) detail

No white gloves for this painting.

For The Young

Now I Lay me Down to Sleep (III)
Elizabeth Love
May 2008
Mixed media on canvas
305x305x35mm
$350

Available for sale at the Meridian Energy Plunket Art Show
Aigantighe Art Gallery
31 May - 15 June 2008

Mother Goose

Now I Lay me Down to Sleep (II)
Elizabeth Love
May 2008
Mixed media on canvas
760x380x35mm
SOLD

Now I Lay me Down to Sleep (II) detail

This is the second of three pieces for the Plunket Art Show...I will post the third tomorrow.

When I was young I remember being mesmerised by the art of Brian Wildsmith in his book Mother Goose - A Collection of Nursery Rhymes. I still have my book...it looks pretty well read. I keep it in my studio & reference it at times for his use of colour. I am still captivated.

Now I Lay me Down to Sleep

Now I Lay me Down to Sleep (I)
Elizabeth Love
May 2008
Mixed media on canvas
1020x1020x35mm
$2000

ARTIST STATEMENT for Meridian Energy Plunket Art Show
Aigantighe Art Gallery
31 May - 15 June 2008

Opening night - 30 May 2008
Tickets $25 - Timaru iSite Visitor Information Centre
For the first hour only of opening night, the exhibition will run as a silent auction.

My work has been described as that of a Colourist with canvases often reminiscent of quilts or tapestries, with lavish, brilliant colour. I work in an abstract expressionist way making thoughts visible through layers of thick and thin colour over textured surfaces. My formal visual art training has been design-based with a Certificate in Display & Advertising from Waikato Polytechnic & later tutoring by Auckland calligrapher, Alison Furminger. I am currently mentored long-distance by artist Susan Knaap as I work towards a Diploma of Art & Creativity (Honours) through The Learning Connexion, Wellington. As an artist I value serendipitous learning & long hours.

I acknowledge the work of Plunket in my life when I was a young mother living in Waiouru. The paintings I have chosen to exhibit are from a series titled “Now I Lay me Down to Sleep”. I imagine them to hang in a child’s room as a form of blessing…the painted quilt with its many coloured pieces, moons & stars symbolises the way in which a parent will cover their child for sleep, both physically & spiritually; tucking the child in with a story from colourful, imaginary lands, songs & prayers. A beautiful time that passes so quickly...

May 2008

Big Exhibition of Small Artworks

Mother's Legacy (33 - 35)
May 2008
Elizabeth Love
100x100x35mm canvas
Acrylics, dressmaking pattern, shellac

These pieces (& one other slightly larger in the same series) will be available for sale at the following exhibition...

South Canterbury Arts Society
Big Exhibition of Small Artworks
Art Centre, Gleniti Road
Timaru

9 - 11 May 2008
10am - 4pm