"Capture all that is Spring" Flower Workshop

The sun was shining, bubbles flowing and secateurs at the ready....

The girls did a fantastic job creating their Spring arrangements and much fun was had by all

Ready...

Ready....

Florist's creation

Royal Bake, pie charts and others.....

We have some exciting new work in the gallery… Eion Stevens, Martin Poppelwell, Basia Smolnicki and Andy Irving have all contributed to our ‘Royal Bake’ show and the work looks great.

Stevens says he hasn’t shown in Wellington for  ‘a good 15 years.. ’ and has sent up from Lyttleton 6 iconic ’ oil on panel works that span a 12 year period. His flat planes of colour and signature semi-abstract motifs are as consistent as ever. He says his work is largely autobiographical…’heading towards self portraiture’. One thing that remains the same is his deftness at handling form and colour that can only come from years of steadfastly plying his trade.



Music



Martin Poppelwell has sent down 2 ceramic pieces and a fabulous pie chart painting- as always a delightfully bemused stream of consciousness corralled into his signature wonky grids!

Pie Chart Study

Andy Irving has replaced ‘strip light’ with the stunning illuminated ‘Concentric Circles’ …do a drive by this is always on and looks great at night.



Concentric Circles



Basia Smolnicki has made aquatint portraits from rubbish! These are hilarious outcomes from the humblest beginnings!



Frank



Totaranui by Tom Sladden

A new ceramic work from Roger Booth and an illuminated tent work by Tom Sladden round out a great collection….

Battleships by Roger Booth

See you soon.

Tomorrow is Thursday...flowers, flowers, flowers....

Tomorrow's Thursday! And we all know that means fresh flowers will be arriving in the gallery…  Tulips, beautiful lillies and native posies.... 

We also have a sneak preview of some fabulous Eion Stevens paintings that have arrived in from Littleton... plus his fabulous "Painted Poems...One artist: 20 poets" book.

Roger Booth has produced another mosaic gem in the form of the two part ‘Ice storm’.

Andrew Missen’s ‘Scribble II’ is exploding off the wall.

Come and check it out.

Change up....

We have had a few change overs here at CVG this week.  Enter two lovely Megan Campbells- Park Rites and Nurses home.

Park Rites

Scott Kennedy’s stunning ‘1/8  Scale’ is here for all you nautically-minded folk.

1/8 Scale

Along those lines we have shipped in ‘Tipuna’ a Leanne Culy enamelled oar.  Tom Sladden's ‘Conifer House’ is striking on the south wall along side Denys Watkins ‘Stadium’.



Conifer House



... and to celebrate the impending RWC we have Luke Sullivan’s hilarious wooden assemblage ‘Don’.

See you soon.

The first week....

Sweet sweet muck, Sticky crud and the big toothpaste arrived from Dunedin ceramic artists Madeleine Child and Philip Jarvis respectively. It’s been a challenge to keep peoples mitts off Madeleine’s incredibly tempting creations and it’s worth a visit alone to see Philips loo set!

The other worldly ‘Stadium‘  is here from Auckland thanks to Denys Watkins- a master class in balance and colour control. The stunning ‘Moana Pool’ by Kate Small also here- it’s a beautiful example of her typically contemplative studies of the human condition- always with a little bit of tongue in the corner of the cheek.

Megan Campbell and Andy Irving continue to delight their Wellington fans – Megan with her quirky takes on what it is to be alive and well in the new millennium! and Andy is affecting traffic flow along Para St. at night with his ‘Striplight’, and his lovely little ‘Copper House’ is off to a good home.

 

Roger Booth has turned a few heads with his fresh take on the art of mosaic tiling with ‘Intersection’ and has another gem, the two part ‘Ice storm’ about to arrive. Scott Kennedy has pulled out the wonderfully titled ‘New York apartment style living’, which will delight his many long-time followers. Helena Hughes has sent down four stunning double exposure works in collaboration with Warren Elwin, who shot over the top in New York.

Angus walker has produced a little B/W stunner with ‘This is the place’ and Andrew Missen has people lining up for more ‘scribble’ action with his delightful wall mounted construction.

So all up it has been a great first week for Cecil Veda Gallery- people really seem to love the concept.

 The flowers look and smell divine, come and get ‘em!! See you soon.

T&L

Check out our article in the DomPost last week...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/culture/visual-arts/5150725/Living-la-vida-local

The Grand Opening.....

After a lot of talk, the gallery is finally opening.

Thursday, 9 June from noon.

We are so excited to have a wonderful collection of artists on board for opening day.

Megan Campbell, Madeleine Child, Jim Cooper, Helena Hughes, Andy Irving, Philip Jarvis, Scott Kennedy, Tom Sladden, Kate Small and Denys Watkins.

Bring your coffee from across the road at Cafe Polo and come and have a look.

PS. Don't forget, also selling gorgeous fresh cut flowers on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.