Landscape, presents the work of two important New Zealand landscape
painters. While similar in subject matter, the formal approaches of Don
Binney and Gerda Leenards provide a refreshing contrast. Leenards, a semi-abstract painter, is concerned with engaging
her audience on an emotive level. By subtly hazing horizons and the
definition between land and sea, Leenards creates a feeling of
lightness underpinned by the more subversive, darker tones used to
define the solid areas of the works. The resulting works are moody and
subtle, and provide the prefect foil to complement the exhibition’s
other contributor, Don Binney. Binney presents us, in his 2002 series of landscapes, with an
example of the figurative style for which he is so well known and
admired. These new works are in celebration of the New Zealand
landscape. Two of Binney’s works feature Kotare, the native kingfisher,
and are both very good examples of the artists signature use of birds
in the foreground of his paintings.
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