August 2023 Mailbag No 2
Our first item on top of the mailbag for today is from Lakshay Nahar in Jalandhar, India. He has painted using oil pastels a wonderful interpretation of Rainy Roads.
I really like the boldness of this work in terms of both the strong use of colour and the dominance of the shapes. And the way he has created the raindrops is very clever. A most appealing image and thank you Lakshay for sharing your work with us.
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Next from the mailbag is a work by Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo in the Philippines. The work is intriguing as the title Enigma would suggest. The work was created using mixed media 50x70cm on a box canvas.
Featured is an awakened woman rising like a phoenix.
Elizabeth's Enigma for me has has energy and movement implying change and growth and her choice of colours and tones is most appropriate with the women clothed in earth colours rising through to the blues of beyond. A very clever piece of creativity and we look forward to more of Elizabeth's work.
Back on the blog's home front in South Australia - Rowdy Wylie and Geraldine Rosser have been engaged in a month long PopUp Exhibition in the town of Middleton, South Australia.
Rowdy reports in to tell us:
The Middleton “exhibition experience” is marvelous.. it gets one out of their comfort zone!!! It has been a good net working opportunity… and positive feed back from local artists and visitors… this is always good to hear!!
And as those of us who are artists know, setting up for an exhibition and running one for a day let alone a whole month requires an enormous amount of work. And we all know it is difficult to get publicity at any time, but Rowdy and Geraldine have made the headlines in the Fleurieu Sun.
We congratulate both of you and look forward to sharing your art journey going forward. If you missed the posts on the actual exhibition please follow through on the bookmark links below.
Anne Newman
Anne Newman
Signing off this month from London with an exquisite little C19th Chinese snuff bottle painted inside with a brush of one hair width. I saw the bottle in a Citi exhibition at the British Museum titled Cina's hidden century.
