Fiona BILBROUGH & Brett JARRETT Exhibition 2011

Brett Jarrett - Sneaking Home Little Penguins 50x35cm oil

Fiona Bilbrough - Ruby Red 61 x 76 cm oil

Exhibition

11 Jun - 22 Jun 2011

FIONA BILBROUGH  &  BRETT JARETT
Two Award Winning realist painters

OPENING drinks with artists
SATURDAY 11 June 2-4pm

Painting demonstration with Brett
Saturday 11 June 12 – 1:30pm

BRETT JARRETT: “In the world of a natural history painter, a trip to the field is the most exciting and stimulating way to ignite many ideas for a wide array of paintings of different species. Such unique opportunities, as my recent trips to the geographic North Pole, and sailing around the Antarctic coastline makes me feel very alive and inspired. It enhances the importance of painting subjects correctly as I’ve experienced them, doing justice to the accurate portrayal of your subject, and capturing the correct use of light and tone in the painting is one of the most enjoyable aspects of being a natural history painter.”

FIONA BILBROUGH: “I am committed to working directly from life, with model or landscape. I was greatly influenced by the realistic, master painters of Britain and Spain when I spent 18 months studying in Europe as a recipient of the prestigious Alice Bale Scholarship.”
Fiona’s still life paintings, reflect the traditional approach of her teachers. Fiona’s work is beautifully and harmoniously balanced, her composition being of utmost importance and her vital starting point. Only proceeding once the problems of visual order, balance, and composition have been solved, Fiona stains the canvas with the background colour. She then begins working methodically over the whole canvas, building colour, tone and texture with each carefully placed brushstroke.