Space 1
Group Show
Sylvia, John and Anna Barnes
Exhibition dates. 3 - 14 Nov 2021
Opening night. Thu 4 Nov 2021, 6:00 - 8:30pm
Sylvia, paints predominantly oil on canvas from real world scenes that has grabbed her. The Japanese scenes of girls in kimonos inspiration came from a recent trip to Japan, obviously not that recent thanks CoVid. She also has a love of botanical work and has a desire to make her paintings as true to life as possible. The ability to have so much patience undoubtedly came from raising three girls, with less than five years apart.
John enjoys painting what many baby boomers find fascinating - World War II aircraft. Seriously, the war ended 75 years ago, what is the fascination still? Sure, they were technological marvels that sped up innovation and were invented in a time before the ball point pen. These planes were flying at speeds of over 500km/h or the speed that a taxi driver will pull over when you have had a tough night and the souvlaki is starting to churn. Ok, they are awesome.
Anna is a contemporary artist mostly working in resin and acrylics and tries to recreate the beauty of the natural world, be it the stars in the sky or a beach teaming with life. As a teacher she is surprised that you got this far in her synopsis.
