Pam Sackville: Opening This Saturday

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

Sackville - Artist Statement - 2005 Exhibition

I began painting in watercolour over 20 years ago and was inspired by such artists as Ellis Rowan and Charles Demuth, and the luminous works of J.M.W. Turner.

When I was approached to paint flowers I was intrigued by their softness, delicacy and fragility, qualities I sought to capture in everything I painted. As I continued to paint flowers over many years, I developed a great passion for them, and began to explore different ways to express their vibrant beauty.

I have always enjoyed using graphite on paper to create subtleties of form and tone, light, shade, strength and softness, particularly in portrait making. However, I find that watercolour is the ideal medium for my still life images. I love the translucency and vibrancy of watercolour, the way the colours run and blend together creating their own hues. Watercolour offers an amazing depth of tone and brilliance, as well as the softest shades, through which the white paper shines as light or is disguised. It beautifully captures the glow of porcelain, the fold of drapes and the radiant colours of fruits and flowers.

Over the years my work has become much more expansive. I have gained freedom through greater size and increased intensity of colour. Although I am occasionally tempted by other painting media, watercolour somehow maintains its hold over me.