Press Release: Pam Sackville - New Work 2010

Eva Breuer Art Dealer is pleased to announce the opening of Pam Sackville’s exhibition, a collection of vibrant contemporary watercolours featuring colourful flowers such as Camelias, Roses, Hydrangeas and Poppies as well as still lifes of native plants and delicate studies of fruit and porcelain dishes.

In these beautiful large-scale watercolours Sackville captures the softness and fragility of flowers. She finds watercolour the perfect medium to express their beauty allowing her to depict a translucency, delicacy and explosion of colour.

The diaphanous petals in Poppies III demonstrate Sackville’s mastery of shading and tonality – pink, red, yellow, and orange pigments glow brilliantly against the muted sea-coloured wash in the background. Many of her subjects are romanticised, in Kale, the borecole appears to be a voluminous rose rather than a bulky cabbage with a fine purple outline fringing the edges of the green and yellow leaves.

Sackville has held solo exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne since 1984 and her work is held in numerous private collections. Her works have been published in the Australian Arts Diary and illustrated in gardening books and manuscripts such as Australian Garden Guide and the ‘Flowers’ column in the Weekend Australian magazine.

Exhibition:
Pam Sackville: New Paintings 2010

Eva Breuer Art Dealer
83 Moncur Street Woollahra

Opening:
Saturday 24 April 2010
Drinks with the artist 3-5pm