Opening: Victor Rubin 2010

Rosemary Valadon 2010 Invite

Press Release: Rosemary's Garden - under the apricot tree

Eva Breuer Art Dealer is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of new paintings by Rosemary Valadon, Rosemary’s Garden - under the apricot tree. Following a sell-out show in 2009 of beautiful and delicate teacups, Valadon’s new paintings invite the viewer into her garden, which she describes as an "embracing environment for sharing with friends and family." Having gone through major health issues this year, Valadon has found "nourishment and solace in the things around [her]: the quiet moments in the garden, the fading light of the sunset, the tea ceremony, the call of the birds." Valadon established her garden in 2005 when she made Hill End her home. Boasting the "best apricots in town," under the apricot tree is a place for "meditative moments."

As part of the AGNSW prestigious Hill End Artists-in-Residence Program, Valadon spent a short time in a cottage once occupied by the artists Jean Bellette and Paul Haefliger. She continues the artistic legacy of Hill End which was established in the late forties by well-known artists including Donald Friend, David Strachan, Margaret Olley and Russell Drysdale.

Rosemary Valadon’s works are held in numerous public and corporate collections around the country including the National Portrait Gallery, Macquarie University, Muswellbrook Art Prize Collection and BHP Billiton. She has been a finalist in the Archibald Prize, Sulman Prize and Mosman Art Prize multiple times and has won the Portia Geach Memorial Award and Blake Religious Art Prize.

The Sun-Herald: Victor Rubin

Art Almanac: Slow Burn

Time Out Sydney: Slow Burn

Wentworth Courier: Slow Burn

The Sun-Herald: Slow Burn Press

Slow Burn Catalogue

Catalogues from the exhibition Slow Burn - A century of Australian women artists from a private collection are available for sale ($49.99 - excluding postage costs). 264 pages featuring 102 artist biographies and full colour illustrations of every artwork in the collection.

Pam Sackville: Opening This Saturday

Press: Sun Herald

Press: Daily Telegraph

Children in Art

Eva Breuer Art Dealer is proud to present a curated exhibition of works by a vast range of artists all based around the experience of youth childhood in part inspired by the exhibition Les Enfants modèles (Child Models) at the Musée national de l’Orangerie in Paris.

Many of the artworks depict images of children themselves. Among others, Ena Joyce depicts a young woman in a plaid skirt pushing a pram under a grey sky along the banks of the Thames, John Olsen shows a girl playing with a seemingly uncomfortable cat, Sam Wade paints a group of school children waiting on a train platform and Zai Kuang captures a moment of quiet contemplation as a seated young girl stares down at a toy penguin perched on a table. In some paintings, such as Stephen Nothling’s Only Pinnochio Knows and Meg Williams’s Still Life with Pink Pig the presence of a child is only implied through the inclusion of children’s toys.


The selection of works showing children and elements of children’s worlds are complemented by paintings that appeal to children through elements such as bright colours, in the case of Philippa Blair, or through their whimsical subject matter, in the case of Geoffrey Proud and Rosemary Valadon.


Children in Art will be on view starting April 6th at Eva Breuer Art Dealer.

Press Release: Food & Art

The representation of food has always had a presence within the realm of the visual arts. The sharing of food and drink is a communal behavior similar to the way art acts as a forum for dialogue. This collection of paintings from the gallery stock room explores the appearance of food in not only traditional still life paintings and banquet scenes but also in figurative paintings such as David Boyd’s Two Children with apple and orange and Ray Crooke’s Villagers Relaxing.


The still life paintings range from knobby yellow capsicums by Ena Joyce to Elisabeth Kruger’s perfectly round clementines that appear to be rosy and ripe. Sophie Dunlop’s opulent coloured etchings display fruits scattered among various bowls and pitchers with a background echoing the aesthetic of a Roman fresco. Dunlop layers the connections between food and art by referencing art itself within the genre of a still life. With this in mind, the quite composition of a jar of paint brushes and a lone squash in Judy Cassab’s Untitled painting can be viewed as the crux of the exhibition and a celebration of creative output, both artistic and culinary.


Food & Art will be on view starting March 26th at Eva Breuer Art Dealer.

Food & Art from the Gallery Stock Room

On view from 26th March 2010

New Addition to the 2010 Exhibition Schedule

Sam Wade: Exhibition 2010, Opening 2 October, 3-5PM

Artist Spotlight: Pam Sackville

Who (or what) do you consider your artistic inspiration?

I find the play and effects of light and shade to be endlessly inspiring; whether it be on faces, hands, flowers or drapery, or the distant hills, ocean waves or trees.

Do you listen to music while you work, and if so, what is most often playing?

I love classical music, and often listen while I work. Schubert, Mendelsohn, Brahms, Mozart, Handel; chamber music, symphony or opera. Music always evokes an emotional response which surely enhances the pleasure of painting.

Who of your peers do you respect the most?

Being a watercolour artist, I particularly admire those who paint in watercolours. I was delighted when Cherry Hood won the Archibald prize with her watercolour portrait of Simon Tedeschi. An American painter called Charles Demuth provided much inspiration in my early painting and teaching. And I have always loved Margaret Woodward's drawings and paintings.

When did you decide to become an artist?

I began drawing in my late thirties as a hobby and found myself - to my great surprise - at the City Art Institute (now Sydney College of the Arts) completing a BA VisArt. One thing led to another and my new life as an artist began.

What is your favourite colour?

I love Winsdor Blue (green shade) for its vibrancy and strength. Brown Madder is also a favourite, and more recently I have become very enthusiastic about Perylene Maroon, a beautiful deep red/maroon.

Do you have a favourite painting or work of art? If so, what is it?

Though I have several cherished works of art, one of my all time favourites would have to be Margaret Woodward's Peregrinations Across The Gibson (1988). On a personal note, I would never part with my own pencil drawings of our two daughters.

Pam Sackville's exhibition of watercolour paintings opens 24th of April, 3-5PM

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

Wayne Eager Exhibition 2010 Invite

New Addition to the 2010 Exhibition Schedule

Rosemary Valadon: New Work 2010
Opening 28 August 2010, 3-5PM