December 2002
During the next sixth months at Middle Park Gallery Judith will be working on the Inland Seas suite of paintings, as well as life drawings and undertaking new commissions.
As Elizabeth's skills continue to develop, her images increasingly combine concepts that draw together her experiences in the international, national and local art scene. Of course, Elizabeth welcomes commissions. She intends to undertake an offered internship in New York towards the end of this year.
Judith with recent painting, 2002
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Elizabeth in Times Square, NYC, 2002
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Middle Park Gallery's curatorial expertise continues to expand into the South Melbourne area where it's exhibitions and reputation [in it's third year] is becoming a local landmark. International contacts are expanding into China, USA, France and England with plans afoot for travelling exhibitions in the future.
new york angels... The new york angels series has come out of Elizabeth's sojourn in New York City in 2002. The works range from $4000 ~ $200. The paintings are mysterious and jewel-like with overlapping cultural and religious references incited by the undercurrents of a city insisting it has emerged from disaster. Evident to the series is the influence of Vermeer, Klimt and the 14th Century Spanish Beatus Manuscripts recently acquired by the Metropolitan Museum.
inland seas...
Judith travelled into central Australia in the latter half of 2002. Her travels developed into the inland seas suite of 20 paintings. They range in size from 2500 x 1000mm right through to smaller panels, the prices from $500 to $10,000.
Currently much of the suite has either been purchased for corporate foyers or by private collectors or under request for 'first option to purchase' as Judith completes them. The most recent works have a phosphorescent and alien beauty. Nightscapes which depict fiery orange and red hills fold into velvety blue/black skies.
Illuminated trees, like spirit figures, stalk and sway over the top of ridges...holding a corroboree of sorts, amongst the piercing points of light Australians call the 'Stars of the Kimberley'. With these canvases the 'inland seas' series teeters on the cusp of landscape and religious/spiritual art. The balancing act that this entails reveals exquisitely powerful tracts of painting.
