Sth Island Members Exhibition on NOW - Christchurch

EXHIBITION ON NOW!

NZ Art Guild Challenge #9

Every fortnight a challenge is issued to our guild members and also to members of our facebook group.These challenges are completely voluntary. Submissions must be original and be completed during the 2 week time-frame. Participants may choose to interpret the theme in any way they wish.

This fortnight's challenge was to create an artwork using the following reference image:

Winner - People's Choice

Anni Morris - Grandma's Cottage

Other Entries

Cath Sheard - Our House


Cath Sheard - Our House 2

Facebook Entries

Beckie Saar Leone - Beach House

Eva Makowkova - Forest Dance

Eva Makowkova - Close up of the actual house

Nicky Hart - Nature's Corregation

Glenda Paul - Pencil Drawing

Featured artist of the week - Ronda Turk

RONDA TURK

Ronda lives in Horowhenua. Working from her home based studio, she paints contemporary works in many subjects. Oil is her favorite painting medium.

She returned to school as an adult student, completing a bursary in painting and undertaking commissioned sketching while raising a family. Her drawings are detailed, with a strong sense of light.

Around the same time she became involved with theater set design and painting, finding that the large, loose shapes required on a set created a balance between the two extreme styles. Ronda continued her education with The Learning Connexion, where she completed a diploma majoring in painting and drawing. Her painting has developed an intuitive style with a strong sense of space and tone.

Contact Ronda via her blog:
http://frommypalette.blogspot.com/
http://rondaturk.webs.com/

Art Swap 2009 - Entries

Artist: Amy Mackiewicz
Title: Shades of Green

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 500 x 600mm

Artist: Amy Mackiewicz
Title: Winter Wonderland
Medium: Mixed Media
Size:380 x 380mm


Artist: Angela Laby
Title: Ecclectic
Medium: Mixed Media
Size: 910 x 610mm


Artist: Bobby Shen
Title: Erosi
Medium: Mixed Media
Size: 480 x 580mm


Artist: Bobby Shen
Title: Shards
Medium: Mixed Media
Size: 170 x 510mm (total size, triptych)


Artist: Chavah Kinloch
Title: Believe
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 250 x 250mm


Artist: Chavah Kinloch
Title: Dream
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 250 x 250mm


Artist: Cheryl Irwin
Title: Quiet Moment
Medium: Composite Stone on timber
Size: 420 x 420mm


Artist: Cheryl Irwin
Title: Welcome Home
Medium: Composite Stone on timber
Size: 420 x 420mm


Artist: Chris Cruickshank
Title: Gannet Above Wave
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 600 x 300mm

Artist: Helen Sherrock

Title: Enjoying Summer

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 500 x 500mm

Artist: Joanne Redshaw
Title: Morning in Surf City
Medium: Mixed Media
Size: 505 x 400mm


Artist: Jos Coufreur
Title: In the stream
Medium: Oil
Size: 500 x 600mm


Artist: Jos Coufreur
Title: Red Bucket
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 450 x 450mm


Artist: Melissa Muirhead
Title: A Long way Home
Medium: Oil
Size: 400 x 600mm


Artist: Melissa Muirhead
Title: Illusion of Aloneness
Medium: Oil
Size: 605 x 915mm



Artist: Pam Buffery
Title: Looking at you - pukeko
Medium: Oil
Size: 300 x 300mm



Artist: Rochelle van der Werff
Title: Quill
Medium: Mixed Media
Size: 305 x 610mm

Artist: Sharlene Schmidt
Title: Innocently wild
Medium: Oil
Size: 250 x 250mm

Artist: Sharlene Schmidt
Title: Tulip
Medium: Oil
Size: 250 x 250mm

Artist: Sheryl Eustace
Title: Poppy Digital Print
Medium: Digital Print (Framed)
Size: 230 x 280mm

Artist: Sheryl Eustace
Title: Poppy Woodcut
Medium: Woodcut Print (framed)
Size: 230 x 285mm

Artist: Silver Dunlop
Title: Shadow
Medium: Mixed Media
Size: 200 x 400mm

Artist: Sophia Elise
Title: Fractured
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 300 x 300mm

Artist: Sophia Elise
Title: Many Faces
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 460 x 600mm

Artist: Tanya Dann
Title: The Perception of Innocence
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 400 x 200mm

Artist: Tanya Dann
Title: Tie Bag
Medium: Mixed Media (Textiles)
Size: 150 x 230mm (not including handle)

Featured artist of the week - Sophia Elise

SOPHIA ELISE

Sophia Elise is an Auckland based, self-taught artist. She is actively involved in the art community as founding member and manager of the NZ Art Guild and also as a Trust Board Member for Mairangi Art Centre. She has been selected as a finalist in several NZ Art Awards, involved in numerous exhibitions throughout NZ and recently exhibited in London. Her art can be found in select NZ galleries and is held in international art collections. Sophia also feels passionately about her art helping those less fortunate so donates to charity art events on a regular basis.

Sophia has two very distinct styles of art. She is an extremely tactile person and this love of texture is reflected in her heavily textured minimalist abstract style which often incorporates resin. Her other distinctive style is created entirely with hand painted dots which result in very funky detailed artwork with an almost Aboriginal feel to them.


When Sophia creates she believes it's important to "Make it Memorable". She achieves this by drawing inspiration from her emotions and forging it with her environment and experiences to create unique, original art which is a window into her soul. By doing this she encourages the viewer to connect on a deeper level and explore places within themselves. 'If my art can reach into the soul of another and emotionally and spiritually touch that person, then it's all worthwhile.'


Contact Sophia by email: sophia@sophiaelise.co.nz or visit her website: http://www.sophiaelise.co.nz/