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| Celebrating Summer | Freewheeling | Windsong |
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| Edge Of The Land | Life At The Top |
| Lee Russell - Artist Lee is a past President of the Taranaki Society of Arts. She paints in oils, with brush and palette knife. Her original technique and style have developed through experimentation and extensive participation in many workshops and classes, spanning a period of over thirty years. Painting has become her life following a brush with breast cancer in 1998. Personal statement: "As a cancer survivor, I feel privileged to have discovered through the gift of painting, an enormous loving, creative and healing energy that has enabled me to impart to others the emotions of childlike wonder in the colours, light, beauty and pain of life all around us." Her paintings of landscapes, children and other subjects have hints of three dimensional qualities, and being romantic and slightly surrealistic in style, attempt to capture differing moods, using the daily and seasonal variations in light source to energise the visual experience. She held her first exhibition in Hamilton in 1999, and recent recognition of her work has come in the form of: 2nd Prize - Modern/Contemporary Section, Franklin Arts Festival 2004 Highly Commended - "The Flower Show" exhibition, Percy Thompson Gallery, Stratford 2004 2nd Place Award, opaque category, Taranaki Miniature Painting Awards 2005 Selected to participate in the Florence Biennale 2005 Her works have been well received by Taranaki and visiting art collectors and her works are in private collections around New Zealand and overseas. |
Lee and David are now living in Waikanae, on the Kapiti Coast.
email Lee at leedavid @ outlook.co.nz (remove the spaces)