Open 11am – 3pm on Friday 22nd, Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th October 2021.
Cup weekend: Thursday 28th , Friday 29th, Saturday 30th, Sunday 31 October, Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd November 2021.
Artist Ellen Palmer Hubble will be at ArtSpace on Cup Day, Tuesday 2 November, 11am – 3pm, to talk about any of the featured artworks by the four artists.
Presenting Painters Karen Barber and Ellen Palmer Hubble, Printmaker Amanda Thompson and Glass artist Marlene Abela.
Masterful in their own specialised mediums, these four professional Gippsland artists explore and express their visual responses to create this delightful inflorescence of 2D and 3D artworks.
PAINT Karen Barber
Vibrant, strong, bold and brilliant colours create Karen Barber’s playful art series. The appeal of these uplifting artworks reflect and embrace her nature and positive response to life’s ups and downs.
Mastering two distinct styles in oils and watercolours, Karen skilfully hones patterns, shapes, and broad flat areas of colour in her portraits while softer tones and gentle textures of peacefulness and kindness are found in her response to the abstract qualities of nature.
Colour, joy and optimism emanate from both her styles.
PAINT Ellen Palmer Hubble
Light, radiance and glow are the elusive elements which entice Ellen’s fixation in this series of emotive responses. Strong contrast and bright light create drama while soft tones and warm light evoke mystery in her visual excerpts from nature.
From her en plein-air watercolours and photographic studies, Ellen has captured the ever changing moods of light and atmosphere in these major oil and watercolour studio art works.
PRINT Amanda Thompson
Grimy, peeling, falling apart, provide the inspiration and essence in Amanda’s search for sublime in the most unlikely places and emulated in this series of drawings etchings and woodcuts.
The old neglected fence post is the featured subject used to record the entropic process at work on man-made objects while communicating concern for the destruction of the natural world.
Specialising in woodcuts, Amanda, echoes lovely textures and delicate nuances in colour through her expressive use of relief printing.
PLINTH Marlene Abela
Disposed, donated, foraged and found are the ingredients for this exciting series of Marlene’s fascination with glass.
This exquisite series of three dimensional forms reflects facets of our environment embedded in the organic flow and energy transfixed and poised in light.
Hand coloured and then kiln fired, the heat and firing process creates a magical reformation of colour shifts in this wonderful world of translucence.
