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Artist Exhibitions:
2008 - MOBILIZUS Praxis
Gallery, Singapore. This
exhibition will travel to
Belgium, Bains Connective in
Brussels, then to New York and
Christchurch, New Zealand.
2008 - Gallery "O",
Christchurch Art Centre, group
exhibition with Jean Laming,
Joanne Gary and Mike Coker
2007 - Sezn, 705 Glocester
Street, Christchurch New
Zealand.(Solo)
2006 - POSTULATIONS ...
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Commissions:
Private Commissions
2006 - Mr Graeme and Mrs
Shirley Eng, NZ...
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Artist Statement for Lynette Robb
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I have recently settled in Christchurch, New Zealand, after living, traveling, studying and exhibiting in Asia for more than a decade. My works, while away, developed a resemblance to maps conveying the route to be taken – travelling and eventually, home to New Zealand.
Australia, Singapore, and New Zealand presented disparities between city and country, large and small, and in relative sizes and distances. These factors relate in my mind to mapping. I found my work developed lines large and small throughout each piece. When I analized the pieces it seemed to me to be development of the "route home". My work expresses the feeling of being always on the move and never in one place for long. There is also the notion of never quite knowing where I will be at any one time in the future. A map is a two dimensional representation of the three dimensional earth, plus the fourth dimension of time. My artwork,is a simulacrum of this ideal. They are built up with translucent layers conveying a peaceful plateau broken only by mysterious landforms. They are expressions from an aerial viewpoint (such as maps give us), which has now given way, as I settled into life in New Zealand again, to a less obvious and sometimes more oblique angle – it is left to the viewer to decide whether it is from a vertical or horizontal perspective.
My current paintings hover between the figurative and the abstract.
Expatriates tend to develop ideals of land, sea, sky, colour and place or location, which is enhanced by memory and desire. Since settling, the mapping reference is dissipating, after all we only require a map if we don’t know where we are or where we are going. I have found, as a consequent of my return to New Zealand, that the feeling of belonging in a particular and familiar place is stronger in these works. Just as the great English landscape painters of the 18th and 19th Centuries painted larger than life landscapes firstly for the great land-owners as it made them feel good, rich and important to view their expansive lands and secondly for the peasants who ended up in the cities, during the industrial revolution. These paintings gave them hope and a way of revisiting the lands they knew best. Horizons gave them hope and the effect of sky and massive mountains (often portraying tiny figures in the landscapes to maximize the impact of the scene) was one of uplifting spirituality. Just as everything was painted as being idealized and larger than life in those days, I have taken this to a modern extreme in the use of colour, macro vs micro vision and with the multiple layering techniques used to reach a point of spirituality.
The joy of a cobalt blue sky amongst the mountains or an icy aqua green river flowing from a glacier fills me with awe. The colours of the weather, land formations, crops, water-ways, or the exultation of achievement when reaching the top of a peak, the head of a river, or in experiencing an awesome view, is what I dream of as I paint. Cézanne once said, “Painting from nature is not copying the object, it is realizing one’s sensations. The experiential colours I use are recollected emotional memories of places from my nomadic lifestyle.
What is more beautiful than a road? It is the symbol and the image of an active and varied life. Each one of us should speak of his roads, his crossroads, his roadside benches; each one of us should make a surveyor’s map of his lost fields and meadows. George Sand (Amandine Aurore Lucile) French novelist and writer 1804 – 1876)The quote above refers to making choices in life and taking stock of where we are. The colours of the Orient and tropics have influenced me particularly over the last decade. The expressive brush strokes and evocative colours and tones jolt our conscience to see a remembered place. We all have remembered glimpses in our lives and I hope the viewer recognizes in these pieces their personal special “place”.
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