Another opening - "to the studios"

In a previous post I remarked on the experience of approaching a grassy rise at Mystery Bay. There was a sense of opening to the sky and the scape, and a great sense of hope.

I get a similar feeling from this wonderful work by Frank Auerbach in the current show at Rex Irwin gallery - Important drawings, prints and ceramics.

Frank Auerbach
Sketch; To the studios 1977
Ink on paper, 29.5 x 34.3cm (image Rex Irwin Art Dealer)

For me, Auerbach has captured the sense of hope and opening of a artist approaching his places of creation. And I think this sense can apply to others of us when we approach our places of creativity, whatever they may be. The title has "studios" in the plural and for me this is significant - the creative places in us are plural.

Recent purchase

We recently purchased this great work by Euan Macleod.

Euan Macleod
Bird figure 2007
Acrylic on paper, 76 x 56cm (image Rex Irwin Art Dealer)

The work was in the exhibition Figure in a Landscape at Rex Irwin gallery.

Here's another great work from the same show:

Peter Booth
Drawing 2007
(Man and trees in snow)
Mixed media on paper, 13 x 27.5 cm (image Rex Irwin Art Dealer)