The Wanganui Chronicle ran a quarter page article today on the pieces I have created for the LEGATO exhibition in Italy. Wonderful coverage. They even used my artwork for the full colour banner on the top of the front page!
Tag: exhibition
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Newspaper article
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Legato postcards
With only a month left till we head to Italy for the LEGATO exhibition at Cassino, I have completed 60 postcards. These will be posted from Casino to all the wonderful people who have bought $35 shares in my trip. Once we get back they’ll also get a colour newsletter about the trip, and by Christmas 2010 will receive a 6×6″ painting as well. I want people who have supported me to feel like they’ve got real value for money.
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New paintings – sunset at the tidal pool
I have just sent a new series of four paintings off to the “all things small and beautiful” exhibition in Tauranga. All works had to be 10×10″ – one of my favorite sizes to work in. The four works are all very similar in color and style and are all titled ‘sunset at the tidal pool’. They are loosely based on memories of seeing Dale Chihuly glass at an exhibition Tony and I went to in Hamilton on our honeymoon some 15 years ago. The sheer wonder of seeing his work in the flesh is still with me today. Dale’s incredible work can be seen here.
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Legato artworks finished for Italy in May
After sitting with these for a week or so, I have decided they are finished (with one possible, slight, adjustment still in my sights…). This afternoon I got the best photographs of them I could manage given the weather etc. The four men featured are:
Mansel Barker, my father, otherwise known as Ableseaman Barker.
Jack Robinson, my best friend Sandra’s father, who served with the 5th Field Ambulance.
Roy Lehndorf, my best friend Sandra’s uncle, who died within a few months of being posted overseas.
Alan McLeod, Margaret Prince’s father, who lost both legs to a Schu mine.
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LEGATO works – process photos
Last week and over the weekend I was working on the four mixed media paintings that I am taking to Italy for the LEGATO exhibition in May. I thought it was time I shared some snapshots of the process – I have not taken photos of the finished works as yet; partly because I am not 100% certain they are finished. I am living with them for a week or so while I eye them up! Here’s how they got to the “I think these are done’ stage…
Writing the story on the canvas 
First acrylic wash over the writing 
Adding copies of photos and old war documents 
Building up the washes and splashes 
Adding the reminder that war is a bloody business 
Painting in a peace poppy on each, helping to obscure the text Share this:
Cath Sheard Art 