LOCAL talent continues to be showcased at Tenterfield’s Artists’ Collective Studio gallery with the launch of a new exhibition this Friday, July 1 from 5.30pm.
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Sketcher Judy Harris’s work is captured under the title ‘Story Lines’, featuring dancing line drawings of boots, coats, chooks, cows and other animate and inanimate objects that catch her eye.
“It might be a tumble of granite rocks in a paddock with their colours, shapes and ancient presence, a favourite teapot or old pair of shoes, a curious cow at the back fends or the fence itself,” Ms Harris said.
“Each becomes a subject for investigation as I endeavour to capture on that blank surface a movement, a mood, the characters of some other quality of the subject that says ‘here I am’.”
Ms Harris uses whatever tool is at hand -- be it a stick of charcoal, pastel, ink or pencil – to express the concept of her subject without exerting too much control, hence the dancing lines. The result is a casual, emotive piece of art depicting the subject with a degree of whimsy.
Fellow exhibiter Helen Turrisi said it was inevitable she would turn to art, growing up surrounded by traditional Dutch and Flemish art and descending from a line of avid painters. Time away from her busy cake business is spent painting and sculpting, and it’s the latter talent on display during this exhibition.
“My work has evolved to a more organic experience between the environments that surround me to that of the viewer,” Ms Turrisi said.
“The fusion of painting skills, glazing and sculpture are now incorporated in all my work.”
Her pieces – under the umbrella ‘The Organic Dynamic' – include sculptures in clay, wood and stone inspired by her environment.
The double exhibition continues to Thursday, August 18. The gallery is open from 10am to 4pm on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays and from 9am to 3pm weekends.