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Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery - Broken Fences, Weatherboard Dreams, by Jane Coombs
Location: Central Stories Museum & Art Gallery
Region: Alexandra
Dates: Thu, 6 October 2022 - Thu, 3 November 2022 @ 10am - 4pm Daily
Jane is primarily a landscape painter, working in the mediums of oil and acrylic ink. Her creative approach is both representational and stylistic.
She have always enjoyed the freedom of the outdoors and the solitude of the countryside. She has hiked, biked and kayaked in some spectacular locations but she needs to feel a true connection with a place before she feels ready to paint it. The mountains of the South Island of New Zealand and the national parks of Wales have been such places for her.
She sees a special beauty in a landscape which can, against all the odds, retain a wild element. she seeks to reflect what she considers to be the infinity and resilience of nature in her oil paintings, despite our lasting impact on that environment.
Her time spent in London saw her art moving in a different direction as she sought to interpret the austerity and loneliness of the city. She spent days commuting to work and weekends visiting street markets. She painted what she saw out of the train window every day and graffiti became a recurring theme in her urban landscapes. She began to experiment with character drawings of the people she observed in the street markets of London and, once again, she found black acrylic ink to be a perfect medium for this series of work.
Since returning to New Zealand she has taken her time to reconnect with the country, all that she loves about it and what it means to her. Once again she has turned to acrylic ink and oil as mediums of choice. She has just completed her latest series of New Zealand landscapes, which she have entitled "Broken Fences, Weatherboard Dreams". These works will feature in her solo exhibition at Central Stories Museum and Gallery in Alexandra from October 6 to November 3, 2022.
Location
Central Stories Museum & Art Gallery
21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra
April 2024
Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
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1 | 2 | 3 | Arts Central - Meet the Author: Ruth ShawThu, 4 April 2024 @ Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start | 5 | Central Otago Regional Orchestra - "Autumn Romance" Alexandra and QueenstownSat, 6 April 2024 - Sun, 7 April 2024 @ April 6th at 7.30pm, April 7th at 2pm. | |
7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery - "Bannockburn - A Place to Stand" by Jan and Tim Hawkins.Fri, 1 March 2024 - Thu, 11 April 2024 @ 10am - 4pm Daily | Entries Open Now - West Otago Art AwardWed, 28 February 2024 - Fri, 12 April 2024 @ Entries Open Now | 13 |
14 | Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery - School Holiday ProgramMon, 15 April 2024 - Sun, 28 April 2024 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Teviot Arts - "A Night in New Orleans" The River City Jazzmen.Fri, 19 April 2024 @ 6.30pm for 7.30pm start | Hullabaloo Art Space - "Memories from the Mantelpiece" by Tracey Morrow and Rebecca McKaySun, 31 March 2024 - Sat, 20 April 2024 @ 10am - 4pm Daily Central Otago Art Society - "An Acrylic Painting Adventure" with Jenny Chisholm - Contemporary LandscapesSat, 20 April 2024 - Sun, 21 April 2024 @ 9.30am - 3.30pm daily |
Central Otago Art Society - "An Acrylic Painting Adventure" with Jenny Chisholm - Contemporary LandscapesSat, 20 April 2024 - Sun, 21 April 2024 @ 9.30am - 3.30pm daily Central Cinema - "Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story"Sun, 21 April 2024 - Wed, 24 April 2024 @ 21st April @ 5pm. 24th April @ 2pm. | Applications are Now Open - Michael King Writers Centre Australian ResidencyWed, 27 March 2024 - Mon, 22 April 2024 @ Applications Open Now | 23 | Central Cinema - "Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story"Sun, 21 April 2024 - Wed, 24 April 2024 @ 21st April @ 5pm. 24th April @ 2pm. | 25 | 26 | 27 |
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