Of Ocean and Earth

Trisha Howie and Beverley Watkin are exhibiting their new art work in "The Carriage" at the Old Pomona Railway Station Gallery.
Exhibition dates: Saturday April 10^th to Thursday May 13^th, 2010

Trisha’s intricately constructed framed work is a delight to behold and captures the viewer’s attention and then holds it, while each tiny detail leads to the next. Some of her artworks have been incorporated into coffee tables, which are both functional and engaging.

Beverley has previously participated in group exhibitions at the Old Railway Gallery, and this time is showcasing both quirky ceramic pieces and her bright cheerful acrylic paintings.

Trisha Howie

A born scavenger and collector of flotsam and jetsam, I do most of my walking with eyes glued to the ground, hoping to find treasures I can use in my work… a dropped feather, a dead butterfly, a fallen nest, even a lizard who has run out of luck and can live again in a picture.

I’ve walked hundreds of beach miles looking for the sea’s treasures to make my shell pictures – little crabs (dead of course), seaweed, driftwood, sea glass, pebbles, sand – and always hoping to find that special piece I’ve never seen before.

And something I really love about my work … I’m always being given little parcels of discovered offerings from people who share my love of finding hidden treasures in nature’s wonderful world that are lying there, waiting to be seen and loved.

Beverley Watkin

For 20 years I worked as a professional potter/clayworker, having graduated with an Advanced Diploma Art/Ceramics from Southbank TAFE.

On “retirement” I turned to painting which I had incorporated into my clay work over the years. I would describe my two dimensional work as contemporary realism.

I have participated in joint exhibitions locally and have enjoyed several workshops in Toowoomba, Grafton and elsewhere with well known artists – I work mostly in acrylics and watercolors.

Trisha has carefully selected beautiful natural beach objects arranging and displaying them in a variety of wall and floor furnishings.  Visitors to the Old Railway Station Gallery will have already enjoyed being surrounded by Trisha’s creative energy, every week the garden design and growth is arranged by her energetic direction. Her obvious pleasure in finding beautiful small flowers of all colours to fill the visitors eyes is also shown in the new artwork for this exhibition.  Attention to detail and composition are applied in each underwater and cottage scene Trisha has made. These artworks show the  creative expression which reflects the joy of life Trisha herself exudes.

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Beverley has reveled in the colour and rhythmic patterns found when looking at the earth and the ocean. She has created paintings and ceramic pieces which playfully show coral, fish, waves and sand patterns. Bright stylized ceramic fish are glued to canvas or hang as free flying wind chimes, whirlpools of jellyfish and coral blissfully float on paintings on canvas, views of sand dunes disappear towards the ocean or sky, all these artworks are made by this versatile and talented artist.

Artist - Beverley Watkin

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