(“Costume Room”. Oil on canvas by Nicola
Crawford)
Running
at Blue Caterpillar Gallery in Pietermaritzburg are exhibitions of work by
Nicola Crawford and Dianne van Wyk.
Nicola
Crawford is a local Pietermaritzburg artist and her paintings are contemporary
and yet contain a ‘vintage’ flair in some of her subject matter. Work on show until
the middle of November 2017. Using muted tones of greys, blue and beige her
paintings are soft and feminine – sometimes she uses a strong or dark
background colour to emphasize the subject matter itself.
Dianne
van Wyk is a Durban based artist with a love for print making, nature and
artwork that ignites the imagination. Her paintings have a unique texture and
her use of colour and light are inspiring. The gallery has a current display of
her work and will continue to add new pieces.
“My
motivation to paint is an intrinsic thing - I respond on an emotional level to
an image and then translate that into a painting. My first love is figurative
work but I have also started to do landscapes - all my landscapes have roads
going through them. This enables the viewer to place themselves into the
landscapes using references from their own memories. My medium is still to use
oil with mixed drawing media on canvas. I always try and evoke an emotional
response by the viewer to my images” – Dianne van Wyk
The Blue
Caterpillar Gallery is situated at the Butterflies for Africa complex at 37
Willowton Road in Pietermaritzburg. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Friday from
09h00 to 16h30, Saturdays 09h30 to 15h30 and Sundays 10h30 to 15h30.
More
information from Jeni Cramer on 033 387 1356 or email art@butterflies.co.za or
visit www.butterflies.co.za
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