Autumn at INKA

New acrylic experimental paintings on SALE at Inka during May. These are print/paintings made with stencils, leaves, carrots, polystyrene block, potatoes and other found objects. I love the random surprises of painting with unusual objects!  All works on paper and $50 each at Inka Gallery to 5th June.

Autumn Haiku

Flying Falling

Red Moon Rising

Winter Green

Summer



 

Autumn Moon

After Dark

New Works at INKA Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart 15 March - 4 April. Opening celebration  Friday 16 March, 5.30pm. Hope to see you there!

An exploration of colour, mood, and darkness
My approach to colour is influenced by the pastel paintings of the late Mark Leach, a contemporary British artist who used colour to express mood and feeling, and following in the tradition of the Impressionists who were inspired to see colour as a creative force in its own right.

To the Museum
(46 x 66cm)

Victoria Dock from Hunter St
(46 x 66cm) SOLD

After Dark is an exploration, both literally and figuratively, of the beauty and sadness emanating from Hobart’s dark past. As darkness falls the historic buildings still glow with colour, but a sense of foreboding, a gothic sensibility, lingers. The streets, buildings and docks of Hobart are evocative reminders of a colonial era that is protected and celebrated as part of the story of this land.

Walking Home, Hampden Rd
(47 x 33cm)

Electric Telegraph
(33 x 47 cm) SOLD

But unlike its convict history, now worn like a badge of honour, little remains to illustrate the era before colonisation. Pride in Tasmania’s other great assets – its unique Aboriginal people and wildlife not found anywhere else in the world – is scarcely evident. As an immigrant to Tasmania, hearing wallabies, quolls, possums, and native hens referred to as vermin, leaves the uncomfortable feeling that this has all happened once before. 

The Mascot
(66 x 46 cm)

The Devil's Playhouse
(66 x 46 cm)

The Missing
(66 x 46 cm)  SOLD

The devils in The Devil’s Playhouse still sing oblivious to their precarious situation after being hunted to such low numbers that a genetic malfunction threatens their existence. The Mascot, now extinct except in advertising, asks if we only value our icons when they are no longer there to annoy us or whether we can learn to share. The colours of The Missing symbolise contemporary Tasmanian Aboriginal people who are sadly absent from much of the state’s media, tourism and governance. Will Tasmania continue its collective forgetting or will it learn to cherish those that were here before and create a new future that remembers, recognises and respects?

A Salamanca Fireplace
(34 x 50 cm) SOLD

Poems and Prints

A personal project for 2011! I've produced a series of six poems with matching linocuts, here are a couple and you can see more at Inka Gallery

The Love Affair

The Love Affair

by Stephanie Parkyn

You saved the whale!

Her blubber no longer boils

for lamps on Hampden Road

What joy to find you

all along beneath our feet

bubbling, babbling, blipping, blupping

just stick in a straw and suck

Like young lovers

we licked, chewed, gulped

rubbed you in our hair

slid you between our teeth

slathered you on lips and intimates

even armpits

we climbed upon your back

rode into the sky

sped towards the stars so high

that now we fear to fall

But all good things must end

as cakes can't be eaten too

For when the orgy's over

someone 

     has to wash the sheets

The Highly Sensitive Person

The Highly Sensitive Person

by Stephanie Parkyn

Is it

lonely

at the pointy

end of the bell

curve? Wobbling

in the breeze catching

every scent upon the setae

of your soul hoping

that another bell

will chime

against

your

own

On the Black Wall

Featured works at INKA Gallery until 9 November

And new unframed works



Ode to a blue gum
(28 x 21 cm)

 

Morning coffee
(16 x 12 cm) SOLD








Battery Pt colours
(16 x 12 cm)

 

Recherche Bay

Images of Recherche Bay - the inspiration for the novel I'm currently writing. These paintings are on show at the Royal Hobart Show 19 - 22 October 2011.

Recherche Bay - Sullivan Point

Towards Recherche - Little Lagoon Beach

Periodic Table on Show

Opening Tonight: the Periodic Table project where 38 Tasmanian printmakers have created images inspired by the 112 elements of the Periodic Table based on information supplied by 79 chemists. The Table will be exhibited around Australia and New Zealand (details here) and is available online to see each of the elements in detail  http://www.raci.org.au/periodic-table-on-show

The Complete Table!

Very exciting to see it all come together. My elements were:

Hydrogen - Collagraph

Hydrogen - the first element to form after the Big Bang and the source of energy within all stars. All other elements in the Universe were forged from fusions within stars and from supernova when the stars collapsed and exploded. The periodic table has to start with a star!

Manganese - Dry point and stencil

Manganese - The first connection between chemistry and art traces back to Paleolithic times when mineral pigments were used in rock paintings. The most common rock art element found around the world is the human hand. The black colour was made by our ancestors using manganese dioxide.

Germanium - Linocut and chine-collé

Germanium - Today Germanium is mainly used for fibre optic communication networks and infrared night vision systems. These super powers – the ability to speak around the world with a single click and to see in the dark as though it were light – inspired this comic book tribute to Germanium.

An exhibition developed by The Royal Australian Chemical Institute Inc (RACI) and supported by Questacon. These images are copyright RACI.

At Gallery Salamanca

New works at Gallery Salamanca, 65 Salamanca Pl, Hobart, Tasmania

St George's on Twilight

Red Awnings

  



Almost Spring





First Glimpse - St Georges from Hampden Rd

SOLD