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Material Witness

My first exhibition since October 2012, “Material Witness”, opens on 22 July, at Exhibitions Gallery of Fine Art, 19A Osborne Street, Newmarket, Auckland.

Preview: Tuesday, 22 July 2014, 6pm – 8pm. If you are in Auckland, please join us (to RSVP please email the gallery auckland@exhibitionsgallery.co.nz) – everyone’s welcome.

You can check out this link to the gallery for a sneak preview of the works on show! And please pass on the invitation to your friends.

The exhibition runs from 22 July to 17 August 2014. See you there!

“Most Secret and True”, Ruth Phipps, 2014, oil on linen, 710mm x 560mm

Hot days and darkened doorways

painting inspired by recent travels in Spain and Portugal, oil on linen, 500mm x 600mm

Creamy, sienna and honey colored stone, warm, soft on the eye; stucco walls that entice my fingers; rustic, weather-worn wood and rusted iron speak of other times; sultry air hangs in darkened passages that open to inner courtyards but feel like portals to another world; fabrics and lace, beautiful and rare and everyday, delicate in appearance, but steadfast and staunch as custodians of rites, traditions, memories … and people. Families, mothers, women.

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by ruthphipps on May 16, 2014 • Permalink

Posted in Oil Paintings

Tagged artist, Auckland, draped fabric, fabric draped over wood, oil painting drapery, ruth phipps, spanish art, spanish tradition

Posted by ruthphipps on May 16, 2014

https://ruthphipps.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/hot-days-and-darkened-doorways/

Surrender to the muse

I’ve been thinking about my obsession with draped fabrics, and how it is I keep revisiting the fold and fall, shadow and drape of cloth.

Isabel Allende described how she becomes obsessed with a theme or with certain stories that stay with her, that haunt her, until she writes them. She just has to write them, she says – she has learnt to surrender to the muse.

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by ruthphipps on March 24, 2014 • Permalink

Posted in Drapery, Oil Paintings

Tagged art drapery, classical realism, draped fabric, drapery, new zealand artists, oil painting, painting drapery, ruth phipps, surrender to the muse

Posted by ruthphipps on March 24, 2014

https://ruthphipps.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/surrender-to-the-muse/

Glimpses

light falls into darkness: details are partially illuminated, suggestive, nuanced; we see only glimpses, memories are evoked, we infer meanings and complete our own stories

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by ruthphipps on February 23, 2014 • Image • Permalink

Posted in Oil Paintings

Tagged auckland painters, hanging cloth, newmarket art galleries, oil painting drapery, ruth phipps, transparent fabric

Posted by ruthphipps on February 23, 2014

https://ruthphipps.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/glimpses/