Hobbit Island Justin Summerton

Hobbit Island

“This was initially titled Waiheke Island it was part of a whole show I did on Islands and relates more to some of the smaller Islands you can see in the Hauraki Gulf. I always thought if funny how you can live on an Island (Waiheke) within an Island (NZ) and also live in an Island in your mind (the artist condition). The Hobbit series of works dates back to about 1998, when I first moved to Auckland. Actually before Jackson started on Tolkien’s novel”.

Net Dance Mark Wooler

Botanical Composition 11 Emma Davie

Painting in 2008 / 2009 has been a continuation from my inspiration of trees and nature forms. However with these works I have purposefully stepped away from intense colour to be able to explore line and space and how it interacts within a chosen format. It’s important in my works that the piece will sit weighted or grounded within the confines of the board, giving a feeling of searching, by layering and interlinking lines while being contained.

They way the work is made: I want to stimulate the eye across the surface of the piece and be drawn into a particular area. This helped by the charcoal lines and often the relationships between forms butting together or over each other. Using mixed media, such as canvas, mull, and paper, allows different textural surfaces to come forward and add dimension to each piece.

Samoan Landscape Justin Summerton

Samoa Landscape

“This was a piece I did shortly after I returned from a month in Samoa. I studied the plants there a lot the clouds were based on ones I saw there too.
The composition is really sparse – it’s simple and meditative, and kind of empty, which is exactly how I felt after a month in that stifling heat, in an Island of Three hundred churches and not a good bar or night club to be found”.

Kapiti Island Janine Prowse

Brazilian Tribe David Danilo Santana