Vista #11

by Laura Phillips

Oil on Board

Judges Comments:

This painting has an intentional two-dimensional feel in its composition and presentation which is quite beautiful in its effect. The palette used is subtle and evocative. Although the work is a rendition of a traditional subject, i.e., a still life, there is no hint here of antiquity. The artist in this case has made it their own, creating a work which seems timeless.

Tim Page. War Photographer

by Joanne Brooker

Acrylic on Panel

Judges Comments:

This work is bold and alive, painted in eye-catching colour. It is well-rounded as a painting: the elements of a war photographers’ life surrounding the subject give his character authenticity. The figure of Tim Page is commanding from the centre of the composition and painted with genuine expression. It is technically accomplished.

Encounter at Coochie

by Peter Hubbard

Oil on Board

Judges Comments:

This painting emanates light and warmth. It is very successful in telling its story around an encounter at Coochie. The composition is appealing and very natural. The artist has been skilled in depicting the figures and their interaction within the landscape. Overall, this is an enticing and atmospheric work.

My Country 465

by Max Butler

Oil

Judges Comments:

This work shows very skilled use of a bold colour palette, set out in a clever composition. The bands of foreground, middle and background reveal their details slowly on continued examination of the painting – it invites looking and re-looking to discover the elements in each part of its striking landscape.

Carnarvons Forever

by Tony Walker

Watercolour

Judges Comments:

This work shows excellent use of a limited palette and expressive line work. The use of watercolour as a medium has been harnessed to its full extent in skilfully depicting the landscape. Overall, this is an evocative work which is infused with light.

Duck and Lilly under the Milky Way

by Wilna TenCate

Watercolour

Judges Comments:

This painting shows good balance between the watercolour use on the figure and the duck and an illustrative approach to the background. The figure, face and animal are sensitively and expressively depicted, with good technical skill. The overall composition is very well balanced.

Bend It

by Di Cox

Digital

Judges Comments:

There is a very effective two-dimensional presence to this work. The composition is balanced, and the inclusion of chairs on the open space in the foreground gives the work a light-hearted summery feel.

Colour in the Fog

by Richard McLaren

Photography

Judges Comments:

The photographer here has captured a mystical and ethereal quality to the subject matter of a landscape in fog, which translates well as a larger presentation.

Maggie

by Kathy Sullivan

Wirework

Judges Comments:

This wirework sculpture is delicately constructed. When it is hung and diffused with light, it creates an evocative shadow of a magpie, bringing the bird to life in the room. This is skillfully devised and when hung, a fluidly mobile sculpture.

Ngoanga – Place of Figs Petrie

by Robyn Bauer

Charcoal

Judges Comments:

This charcoal drawing achieves excellent tonal difference and has an overall compositional balance. The fig trees are gracefully drawn, with depth and strength.

“Flavigny 3, Ed1/6”

by Katia Strounina

Wood Engraving

Judges Comments:

This wood engraving achieves a wonderful chiaroscuro in its depiction of the town gates of Flavigny. The work exhibits excellent technical artistry, and the lines which create the texture of buildings, foreground and sky are beautifully rendered. There is much movement and light in the sky to balance the darker foreground and buildings. The scene appears ancient but timeless, with great depth.

Blue and Yellow

by Alan Fletcher

Watercolour, Acrylic and Pen

Judges Comments:

This work exhibits excellent skill in composition, and very effective use of the different media used. The delicate nest of lines in the middle are texturally and sensitively rendered, and the blue bar at the top provides requisite balance. Each of the three elements contrasts with the others in shape, media and texture, but successfully integrates into a very balanced and intriguing whole.

Going About Living

by Wayne Singleton

Hand Coloured Linocut Print

Judges Comments:

This linocut print displays immense skill in the detail of the scene and in the delicate hand colouring of the birds. The eye of the viewer is drawn again and again to explore the intricacies of the scene. The work encourages full immersion into the forest that is depicted and the living elements within it.

Gap Creek

by Qi Liu

Oil

Patchwork Totem

by Jennifer Long

JUDGES COMMENTS

Lovely subtle shapes and softness.

Hunting Dog

by Dr Ekaterina Strounina

JUDGES COMMENTS

There is a strength in the pose that is quite compelling I keep walking back to this piece to tell me more.. the intensity is there but it doesn’t quite tell a story.

In Praise of Women

by Glenise Clelland

JUDGES COMMENTS

A modest Appraisal of the female figure, charcoal outline with the subtle blushes of colour. the cylindrical shape doesn’t give a focal point.

4 Lace Monitors

by Claudje Lecompte

SELECTORS COMMENTS

“I truly enjoyed discovering this elegantly realised creation inspired by the natural form and movement. The artist’s resolution of opposing elements into solid form are deeply satisfying.

Wind

by Johnny Huang

JUDGES COMMENTS

“Gesture attempting to explain an infinite by really letting fly.”

Untitled

by Joanne heath

JUDGES COMMENTS

The colours “bounce: and therefore lively, circle could hang without the coloured square.

Shadows

by Karen Knight

JUDGES COMMENTS

Strong drawing with good contrast.

Doorway to Sunlight

by Lee Tainui

JUDGES COMMENTS

A good direction would work on bigger scale, the black is dramatic.

War Fear

by Helia Smith

JUDGES COMMENTS

Like the (technique of) drawing with paint.

Beauty; More Than The Immediately Obvious

by Dr Kay Kane

JUDGES COMMENTS

The pencil and wash is a beautiful & subtle medium.

Circle Squared

by Joanne heath

SELECTORS COMMENTS

The work shows a deep sense of visual engagement. The dialogue between artist and work – equalibrium sought. A sense of time has evolved out of the optical play of layers by the use of direct & indirect painting.

Got to Move On

by Marijke Lambregtse

Wrapped in Plastic

by Charlotte England

SELECTORS COMMENTS by Andrew Bonneau

A solid sense of form and use of colour, especially in the face. There is a beauty of shape within the folds of the plastic, an innovative composition and a very effective mood, referring to Twin Peaks but not relying on it.

Flaneur

by Purple Chang

SELECTORS COMMENTS

Wonderful use of a mid toned imprimatura, with solidly painted lights and transparent shadows. A variety of textural application of paint, and subtle, optical colour contribute to its effect, which is clearly an honesty painted self portrait, done from observation.

The Owl of Minerva Flies at Dusk

by Dr Kay Kane

SELECTORS COMMENTS

Subject matter and abstract design considerations are given equal weight in this complex and powerful composition which may compel the viewer to consider the psychological and metaphysical elements of pictorial construction.

Visual relationships and directional rhythms across the canvas explore and synthesize the artist’s encounter with the image of self over time in veiled and overt appearances from the implacable gaze of a central recent self to the cyclic shape punctuations and space interludes of her past reflections.

The gestation of this painting is rooted in the act of many paintings each with its own dynamism of lines shapes and values here striving for a new compositional equilibrium and perhaps ultimately an aesthetic reconciliation.

Portrait of Luigi Casagrande

by Dr Qi Liu