My painting "Hazy Day, Parapara Range" has been selected as one of 16 finalists in the 2012 Wellington Emerging Artist awards. The awards night is tomorrow - don't want to be too optimistic but it would be nice to win something.
I wanted to enter the works on paper section with two of my pastel paintings, but the rules firstly require that the work has not been exhibited before, and secondly that the maximum dimension not exceed 800 mm. This pretty much eliminated all my pastels.
Meanwhile I've been busy with fire engineering and the NZ Masters Rowing Champs, as well as some art related stuff.
The Rowing Champs were at Lake Karapiro, so I decided to do a bit of a road trip. On the Friday before the regatta I drove up via Wanganui and the Paraparas - got lots of photos which hopefully will translate into a few good paintings.
On the Monday I visited Wayne Sinclair at the Sinclair Barclay Gallery in Cambridge. Wayne was working on a painting of Lake Wanaka, but took the time to have quite a long chat about painting and making a living as an artist. I was very impressed with his work and with his words of wisdom from his 40 years as a full time artist.
Wayne's view is that, if you can't have your own gallery, you need at least five outlets in order to sell enough to make a living.
After a couple of days in Auckland I headed south and called in at the Quay Gallery in Napier. It is a very well laid out gallery with some high quality artwork. I had a good chat with Sue Shaare who was minding the gallery for a couple of days. I left one painting with them to see how it goes.
Meanwhile I've been busy with fire engineering and the NZ Masters Rowing Champs, as well as some art related stuff.
The Rowing Champs were at Lake Karapiro, so I decided to do a bit of a road trip. On the Friday before the regatta I drove up via Wanganui and the Paraparas - got lots of photos which hopefully will translate into a few good paintings.
On the Monday I visited Wayne Sinclair at the Sinclair Barclay Gallery in Cambridge. Wayne was working on a painting of Lake Wanaka, but took the time to have quite a long chat about painting and making a living as an artist. I was very impressed with his work and with his words of wisdom from his 40 years as a full time artist.
Wayne's view is that, if you can't have your own gallery, you need at least five outlets in order to sell enough to make a living.
After a couple of days in Auckland I headed south and called in at the Quay Gallery in Napier. It is a very well laid out gallery with some high quality artwork. I had a good chat with Sue Shaare who was minding the gallery for a couple of days. I left one painting with them to see how it goes.
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