Come and see our Art Exhibition at the Cambridge Studio Gallery in Collingwood.

                                    Our exhibition SEVEN is continuing at Cambridge Studio Gallery in Cambridge Street Collingwood.

The interior gallery oil paintings are by Susan Gibson, the mixed media work with purple is by Beryl White and the two framed works of 3D flower assemblages are by Virginia McNamara.  

They need to be seen in person to be really appreciated.  If you would like more information about any of the artists or the artwork please call the Cambridge Studio Gallery in Collingwood.

You are invited to our Art Exhibition SEVEN which is on very soon.

From top left of the number 7 the artists names are:  Lynette, Sue, Eileen, Virginia, Beryl, Evelyn, Kathy, Anne.

There are paintings, prints, glasswork, sculpture, collage etc.

If in Melbourne please check the dates the gallery is open and come in to have a look.  Our official opening is on Saturday 29th August, the Exhibition Dates are 26th August to 12th Sept Wed-Sat 11-5.00pm.

If you are not in Melbourne but you would like to discuss some of the work call the Gallery and talk with Sue or Ness.

We promise we are all working hard towards our next exhibition at Cambridge Studio Gallery.

In between making sculpture, painting, drawing, cutting, assembling etc we must stop for coffee, do a little gardening and rest. We recently held our last meeting (food galore) in the gallery to discuss the final points. It was mid winter bring your own everything. One brought a big pot of hearty soup, crusty bread, rosemary chips (fries), dips, chocolate cake plus so much more. Wine too.                                                                TThe title of our up coming exhibition will be SEVEN.

Interpretation of the cultural symbol; Seven
The regularly exhibiting “Out of the Box” group have chosen to explore seven as a theme. Culturally seven has been a significant symbol, with themes such as Seven deadly Sins, Seven Wonders of the world, Dance of the Seven veils, etc…

The diversity of the theme is reflected in the response by the individual artists to the group theme. Subjects range from views of Melbourne, interiors of a gallery, seven colour spectrums as defined by Isaac Newton, seven sculptures from the imagination and even an artist has challenged herself to complete seven unfinished works…

Gorgeous new paintings in Acrylic on Acrylic Paper by Lynette Joy.

Lynette has told me that she has been influenced by Klimt which you can easily see in the one with the patterning and rich tangerine colour and the other is an expressionist abstract painting that just has to be made by every artist for the release of energy. This one in particular has a strength and engery that needs to be seen in real life.  Will post exhibition information that will come up in the next few months.

These quirky painted and drawn characters were made by Kathy Siganakis.

Kathy’s paintings have a personal narrative and are very dear to her heart.   I asked if I could show some of these images from her collection so here they are.                                                                                               

Artist Lynette Webber’s clay sculpted head is a work in progress.

Lynette Webber is a painter, printmaker and all round artist in our out of the Box group and you can also add sculptor to that.  Lynette is also working towards our exhibition titled SEVEN.  As we are all still experimenting with ideas and media I can’t at this early stage tell you where SEVEN fits into the title.  All the same he is a beautiful character and I can’t wait to see him finished. Love the ears!

This is an amazing place to visit for it’s beautiful building and exhibitions – MONA, Tasmania.

Virginia McNamara was the lucky person that was gifted this trip to Tasmania (off the eastern mainland over the sea and to the south of Australia).   Tasmania has always been famous for it’s magnificent landscape, walking trails, mountains, beaches etc.  More recently it has become the place to go if you love Art because there is an architect designed purpose built private museum called Mona.  Here are a few images from inside and outside the gallery.  Hope you enjoy seeing them.  

1. Museum of Old and New Art
2. The Museum of Old and New Art is an art museum located within the Moorilla winery on the Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is the largest privately funded museum in Australia. Wikipedia
4. Address: 655 Main Road, Berriedale TASMANIA AUSTRALIA
5. Architect : Nonda Katsalidis

Sorry I can’t credit  this artwork as I don’t have that information it is however current at Mona.

The Artgroup had a bit of a mixed media art bee after dinner.

Kathy Siganakis, Virginia McNamara, Beryl White and Anne Warren doing artwork in the dining room.

Beryl White’s mixed media work in progress ‘detail

Virginias pastel and acrylic paint landscape.  Detail only, work still in progress.

A fun meeting was held last night to discuss our forthcoming Art Exhibition titled ‘Seven’.

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We had lots of food, made some art using pens and ink and scissors, had some wine and talked alot.

Just as we were saying goodbye we remembered that we actually didn’t discuss any details regarding the exhibition.  It didn’t matter really because we are such an organised lot and we had several members of the group missing anyway.  One was travelling (lucky thing), one at the ballet (en pointe), one lives such a long way (and has cows) and another wrestling with replacing some technology in her business.  All were missed very much. We ate: Stuffed peppers (greek style) with tsatsiki, roast baby potatoes, garden salad with avocado, rhubarb crumble with cream, sparkling rose and tea and chocolate.

I’ll post over the next few weeks some of the work happening towards our exhibition.

Kathy Siganakis’mythical creature.

This is Lotte.  She and her friends will be in the next exhibition

Some gorgeous pics of an early Autumn morning in Melbourne plus a couple of little tiny artworks.

Our group will be meeting next week and I will then be flush with images and posts for you to see however in the meantime here are a few Melbourne pictures from the beautiful Studley Park in Fairfield, a tiny little collage and a tiny little doodle that I made.       Anne