Artist Profiles

The works of Paul Martinson are both poetic and troubling. They span subliminal and liminal realms with effortless agility. References to the known world are complicated with nonsensical paradigms; a fish in a light-bulb; a biomorphic bird. The lyrical is rendered in unexpected juxtapositions, and yet there remains a sense of threat, a transcendent reality to be accessed beyond biological classifications.

Northland painter Kathryn holds an architecture degree from Auckland University and has won the Marlborough Art Society Prize. She paints in watercolour and acrylic on paper, watercolour pencil, acrylic and oil on board.

She is an observational painter of landforms, ocean and sky. “This work has led me to observe that these environments are extremely fragile and can change very quickly without warning from the influence of external conditions.”

“I have a fascination with the impermanent nature of the coast line. It is like two seas meet as the lines of the sand overlap with the water marks of the sea, changing every moment. Being part of this environment is like a kind of therapy where my mind is able to move through its thoughts and what was stagnant can now move. My work is a response to this ever changing energy and how it helps us to move more fluidly through our internal selves the more we connect with it.”

“I love getting creative with paint, loading and blending the colours on the brush and allowing it to slip effortlessly over the surface to create beautiful flowers. Experimenting and exploring different media, the epiphanies that evolve from happy accidents.”