Newsletter March 16 2020
IMPRESSIONS
Marika Schmidhofer
12 - 17 March
BDAS, 1 Short Street Bowral
10am - 4pm daily
Closing Tuesday afternoon at 4pm
Not to be missed
"Impressions" a solo exhibition by Marika Schmidhofer is inspired by the natural beauty of the Southern Highlands and a stimulating arts community. Marika has lived in the Highlands for over 30 years and in that time has had three solo exhibitions and participated in over 200 group shows.
The show will feature recent paintings that include figurative work, scenes from every day, still life, and landscape.
Girl on red couch
Orange bouquet with basket
You are personally invited to opening cocktails Friday 20 March 5.30 -7.30pm
Savanna Caravan WEARABLE TREASURES
Opened by Scott Pollock
Rock up, frock up for a fun evening of laughter, champagne and good company.
Open daily 10am -4pm
19 - 31 March
BDAS, 1 Short Street Bowral
Savanna’s Wearable Treasures jewellery is extra ordinary. Born in Prague, childhood in Africa, educated in London, Savanna has been on the road all her life. During the decades that she worked as a photojournalist, under her real name Susan Storm, she collected beads, silver and artefacts dating from Roman times to the 19th century. Now she reassembles these ancient, different, unusual, collectible, and beautiful bits and pieces into her Wearable Treasures collection. She renamed herself Savanna in the Moroccan desert, and Caravan because the Silk route is her favourite place. Every piece is unique, every piece tells a story. When you acquire a Savanna Caravan design you’ll become another custodian of a rapidly disappearing culture and history.”
© "Composition with Green Square"
by Jonny Vaupel
Back in the Twenties
Jonny Vaupel - Paintings
Philip Walker - Sculpture
April 4- 6
BDAS 1 Short Street Bowral
Open daily 10am - 4pm
Opening Friday 3 April; at 6pm
An exhibition of our work in the early 2020s looking back to the momentous period of the 1920s in Modern Art
Much of what we understand about colour comes from the Bauhaus colour theories taught by prominent artists such as Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Josef Albers. They tell us how colours form ‘chords’ and how they communicate with each other in their own language.
In a similar way, Jonny’s work does not intend to capture the world in the manner of a photo camera lens but looks instead to unfold beauty and emotions in the universe of colour.
Philip’s response to the theme is twofold.
He reflects on Cubism as it was carried on into the 1920s. Henri Laurens and Jacques Lipchitz both had met or worked with Picasso and other Cubists.
Common subjects were musicians and their instruments. Lipchitz’ and Laurens’ works were less abstract than those of earlier cubists. The sculptures Lipchitz referred to as his "transparents” included a good deal of negative space.
Philip also responds, by use of 3D block forms, to the shapes and colours of the Bauhaus, in particular those of Paul Klee’s paintings.
This exhibition and art sale is a fundraiser for the RFS
Artists are donating works for sale as an expression of their regard for the RFS whose members worked tirelessly to keep our community safe.
Please come and show your appreciation while gaining some excellent art work at more than reasonable prices.
THANKS TO OUR GENEROUS 2019 SPONSORS
Tim & Patricia Copes
Dr Tony Emmett
Southern Highlands
