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Artworx Gallery and Gifts

Locality: Goolwa, South Australia

Phone: +61 8 8555 0949

Address: 12 Hays Street 5214 Goolwa, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.artworxgallery.com.au/

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25.01.2022 FINAL WEEK - Nature's Beauty Exhibiting Artist. Ela Hardy, 'Collections While Walking', 50 x 40cm oil on canvas.

25.01.2022 Anna Blatman, 'White Daisies & Pot', 94 x 125cm acrylic on canvas

24.01.2022 FINAL WEEK - Nature's Beauty Exhibition. Victoria Rolinski, 'In Heysen's Footsteps',100 x 100 cm, oil on canvas.

24.01.2022 Nature’s Beauty Exhibition MEET & GREET October 25th November 15th We are delighted that over three days, a number of exhibiting artists will be available for you to meet and have a chat. DAY 2 Jetty Haitsma - 31st October, 1.30 - 2.00pm... Eamonn Vereker - 31st October, 2.30 - 3.00pm To book a session with the Artist, please email: [email protected] or P.M Limited spaces available, 20 per session.

23.01.2022 FINAL WEEK - Nature's Beauty Exhibiting Artist. Lorraine Lewitzka, 'Autumn (Dyptich)' 29 x 39cm each, oil on board,

23.01.2022 Diana Mitchell, 'All Alone', 40 x 56cm watercolour.

21.01.2022 FINAL WEEK - Nature's Beauty Exhibiting Artist. Suzie Riley, 'Morning Was In The Sky', 97 x 97cm acrylic on board.

20.01.2022 Nature's Beauty Exhibiting Artist Iroda Adil, 'Jacarandas (abstract)', 91.5 x 91.5cm acrylic on canvas.

20.01.2022 Graeme Townsend, 'Libelt Summer Track In Winter', 30.5 x 75.5 cm, acrylic on canvas.

18.01.2022 Due to COVID19 restrictions we are unable to have an official Opening. We are delighted that these exhibiting artists will be available for you to meet and have a chat. Please see their available session times below: Victoria Rolinski - 25th October, 1.30 - 2.00pm Lorraine Lewitska - 25th October, 2.30 - 3.00pm Jetty Haitsma - 31st October, 1.30 - 2.00pm... Eamonn Vereker - 31st October, 2.30 - 3.00pm Janet Ayliffe - 7th November, 1.30 - 2.00pm To book a session with the Artist, please email: [email protected] Limited spaces available, 20 per session.

16.01.2022 Congratulations Donna Chess, Anna Blatman, Elizabeth Maxted, Lorraine Brown, David Chen, Victoria Rolinski, Sally Deans, Eliza Piro, Peter Coad, Lorraine Lewitzka, Nick Sherlock, Jennifer Woodhouse, Cheryl Hay, & Iroda Adil. Over the past week your wonderful artworks have found new loving homes.

16.01.2022 FINAL WEEK - Nature's Beauty Exhibiting Artist. Jetty Haitsma, 'Where's The Nectar, Honey?', felted Black Bearded Honeyeater.

14.01.2022 Linda Robertson, 'In the Mirror', 83 x 105cm, oil pastel on Polymer paper.

14.01.2022 Cheryl Anne Brown, 'Sunday Walk Port Elliot,' 75 x 75cm, oil on canvas.

13.01.2022 Nature's Beauty Exhibition Exhibiting Artist: Jetty Haitsma, 'Nightwatch', felt.

13.01.2022 Llewelyn Ash, 'Sea Urchin Blue', 35 W x 26 cm H, hand made glass.

11.01.2022 We are happy to announce that our next Art Exhibition to be held at Rankines at The Whistle Stop, opens tomorrow, November 28th. Featuring DONNA CHESS & CHRIS OLSEN The Exhibition will run until January 10, 2021. Rankines at The Whistle Stop, 7 Hays Street Goolwa, S.A. Open Thursdays - Sundays

11.01.2022 FINAL WEEK - Nature's Beauty Exhibiting Artist. Eamonn Vereker, 'Large Rainforest Green Vase', hand made glass.

10.01.2022 Congratulations Linda Robertson, Cheryl Rogers, Vic Collins, Bruce Davey, Roy Brammer, & Cheryl Hay, your artworks have found new loving homes.

09.01.2022 Angela Souter, 'Fleurieu Winery' & 'View From Pt Elliot', oils on canvas.

07.01.2022 Due to the SA Government directives, as from today, we will be closed until further notice. Keep safe and we look forward to seeing you once we are permitted to open, Liz and John Francis... Let's beat this COVID-19! A bit of Australian! "One Fine Day" by Amabile Dalfarra-Smith

07.01.2022 Mike Barr's Blog Showing The Unseen "Many artists have a way of presenting more in a scene than what is apparent at first glance. It’s not that certain things aren’t there to see, but an artist can make them visible and they do so by focus and exaggeration. Some things are so subtle in real life that we don’t see them until things are made plain in art.... Shadows and reflected colour can easily be glossed over by everyone, including painters. A shadow is just a shadow until we look at its colour. Mostly, we regard a shadow as a darker version of the colour in which it is cast and even when we study it we may not see any apparent ‘other’ colour. The impressionists were good at coloured shadows particularly the blues. These blue shadows are prevalent on sunny days with a blue sky and are more likely to be seen on light surfaces. It’s hard to pick most of the time, but they can be seen clearly in photographs taken in such conditions. On those blue-sky days, the bluish shadows on white shirts is very apparent. With the white-yellow of the sun blotted out by shadow, the pre-eminent colour of the blue sky, colours the shadow. It is also seen on the beach, especially later in the afternoon when the sun is not as strong and the shadows on the sand are clearly blue-purple. As the saying goes, that’s not all. Other things can effect the colour in shadows too such as reflected light off other things. A white flower may have a blue shadow on a sunny day, but may also have some green from the reflected light off nearby leaves. The shadows on sand-hills can also be coloured by the bright reflective sand. This reflective sand light can also be seen on peoples legs that are in shadow. It is like a golden glaze. If we can capture this in paint and exaggerate it slightly, it will become very believable. Heavily enhanced colours in shadows mostly seems to work. This is because although these effects are subtle and hardly perceived in real life, our brain knows that these subtleties are there and agree with them once they are painted more colourfully on the canvas. There are so many ‘hidden’ things that can be enhanced on the canvas and so many ways to do it. It really is one of the wonders of being an artist." Happy Painting Caption Some long end-of-day blue shadows on sails and sand.

06.01.2022 Denise Maddigan, 'Around the Side', 61 x 51cm acrylic on canvas.

04.01.2022 Graeme Townsend, 'The Old Wives Club' 71 x 55cm, acrylic on canvas.

03.01.2022 But does it look right? (A Blog by Mike Barr) The artists I admire the most are those who are able to depict recognisable things and scenes without having to ‘explain’ everything with the brush. I often marvel at paintings that are so complete without reverting to boring swathes of detail. When we first picked up a pencil or crayon as small children, there were no hang ups about things being ‘right’. We certainly didn’t need a reference to look at when drawing a house. We ...put down things as we understood them almost in symbolic ways. Houses had roofs and chimneys with smoke. Trees were simple enough once we did the trunk the rest was easy. Clouds were a sinch and those fluffy curved clouds actually gave the sky some reality. Birds were a must and were deftly handled with a couple of strokes. People were often just stick figures but everyone knew what they were and dogs and cats were easily recognised, also who can forget the sun with its radiating lines it made for a happy drawing! As the years pass we get more concerned with how ‘good’ things look and when we take up art in later years we seem to be most concerned with perfection of detail. We go to great lengths to get things correct, like tracing and other methods of transferring a correct image. The more we do this, the less chance there is of something artistic happening. Our trees need leaves, our houses need bricks, our birds need beaks and so on the quest to replicate everything we see in glorious crippling detail can the ruin of artistic endeavour. It’s well worth looking at the many paintings that can be found online with websites like Pinterest and even Facebook just to see how artists get around the grid-lock of the tiny brush. Some of the works are energised by their simplicity and stories are told with a few brushy words instead of pages of laboured ‘explanation’. There is joy and exploration to be had in artistic pursuits, but it’s not often found in the arduous journey of trying to getting things right. Happy painting

02.01.2022 Big CONGRATULATIONS to Victoria Rolinski for winning the "People's Choice" Award at the Walkerville Art Show. Victoria is one of our Exhibiting Artists in our next Exhibition "Nature's Beauty" 25/11/20 -15/11/20. Her winning painting "These Days".

02.01.2022 FINAL WEEK - Nature's Beauty Exhibiting Artist. Janet Ayliffe, 'Of the Carpenter Bee', 97 x 60cm, limited edition print.