Helen Martin, Costa di San Giorgio, 2009, oil on canvas, 91x121cm
Helen Martin
Last summer in Italy...
March 6-8, 2010
St George’s Old School Hall
Crn Hobson and Learmonth Sts, Queenscliff
11.30am-4.30pm daily
Sponsored by Brooker Consulting Company Pty Ltd
‘Last summer in Italy...’ presents a series of studies and paintings Helen has completed since returning from a four week stay in Italy last June. Her paintings capture the colour and mood of streetscapes around Florence and Lucca. This is her first solo exhibition.
In her painting and print making Helen explores the notion of finding beauty in the ordinary and the mundane. For her, getting to know a particular place - its colours, its forms, and textures - is like falling in love. Along with finding pleasure in the attractive comes a befriending of the plain, the hard and unappealing. Through the process of layering colour and texture with form, these landscapes are re-revealed, new-found and re-vitalised.
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Helen Martin, Via di Neri, 2010, oil on canvas, 90x60cm
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