A selection of Two Master Women's Artworks from the Northern Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia - Lynne Norton & Sally Douglas

Lynne Norton - Kangaroo Paws

mixed media on Paper

Currently at 2 Dogs Art Space, Akashi there is a small selection of artworks by two women artists being Lynne Norton and Sally Douglas, who have resided in the northern coastal suburbs of Perth for most of their artistic lives.

These smallish artworks by Norton and Douglas tend to reveal an intensity of observation from the terrains they inhabit and paint/draw from of what one might call pedestrian suburban motifs that are transformed into artworks, through the phenomena of human imagination within their daily studio work ethic into masterful artworks.

The art space is fortunate to have these aforementioned highly talented Western Australian women artists with selected pieces from their life time commitment to studio praxis and who have exhibited locally, nationally and internationally showing in Japan.

Please enjoy this exhibition that is currently on exhibit only via the 2 Dogs Art Space Blog  due to the coronavirus, further exhibitions will be on show this way in the near future, thank you.

Lynne Norton - Sturt Peas

mixed media on paper

 Sally Douglas - Poppy Stem Illusion 

water colour on paper

Sally Douglas Wild Wisteria 1 

water colour on paper

Sally Douglas Wild Wisteria 2

water colour on paper

2 Dogs Art Space

Peter Davidson - Plum Omomuki Paintings Rinako Inoue - Ikebana - Runa Gallery Kobe Japan

Omomuki Painting

(warm feeling)

おもむきは、風景の中で幸せに感じるものを観察すると、

暖かい感覚を意味する日本語の単語です。

Omomuki is a Japanese word meaning warm feeling when observing something that makes you feel happy in the landscape.

This series of artworks of the seductive and beautiful Japanese plum blossoms were constructed in the late winter in my Akashi studio, the memories are from around Akashi/Kansai ports, throughout the heavy/light industries, densely populated apartment/housing areas with its intermittent crammed rice paddies in the valleys between.

This recent experimental installation/collaboration between the Ikebana artist Rinako Inoue and my paintings at the Runa Gallery eventuated due to a conversation I had with a Japanese lady, for she related to me;

That in olden times before the Tokugawa period on walls of a castle various animals were rendered in sumi – e (Japanese ink painting) and one image was that of a monkey. And during those bygone times large flower arrangements would be placed within the building and the audience could walk around it and view it from various positions. In some of these views one could see the painted monkey on the wall looking back at them through the flower display.

This aforementioned historical sensation of the sumi - e monkey peering back through the freshly arranged flowers appealed to me, but in this exhibition, there is no wildlife only the hard/heavy industry terrains of Japan with its heavily populated areas of small houses and apartments, along with intermittent rice paddies around the Akashi region, along with the occasional ume (plum) in bloom on the very cold days at the end of Japanese winter, which when sighted always gives me this warm feeling (Omomuki).

These areas of industrial, fishing, farming environments around my studio in Akashi are not what one might called traditionally picturesque but they're to me, it is where my studio is located and it’s always a great joy to walk along and see the floral slices ume trees of what I consider great beauty.

I like the ume flower it doesn’t bloom so majestically like the cherry blossoms of Japan but it still has this unique aesthetic that I enjoy and want to paint, no matter where it situated in Akashi or surrounding terrains.  

This exhibition is my first collaborative attempt at portraying these ume flower sensations from Akashi with a ikebana artist, here are some of the results, which I can build on in the future, as currently I am thinking maybe a bigger installation both in painting and flower arrangement but  for now please enjoy these images, thank you

2019 2 Dogs Art Space - Akashi - Xmas Exhibition By Western Australian Artists

2019

2 Dogs Art Space - Akashi - Xmas Exhibition

By

Western Australian Artists

Study of Mum by Peter Davidson

Duncan McKay, Connie Petrillo, Caspar Fairhall, Kevin Robertson,

Cynthia Ellis, Peter Davidson, Michael Doherty, John Cullinane,

 Chelle Bourne, Lynne Norton, Diokno Pasilan, Linda Fardoe,

 Louis Moncrieff, Shelley Cowper, Monique Tippett,

Ken Wadrop, Melissa Nolan McDougall, Jurek Wybraniec, Pippa Tandy, Ron Nyisztor 

With special art works

by

Sadaharu Horio (Kobe) & Frank Norton (Perth)

Kobe City - Hyogo Prefecture is the Sister State to Perth City - Western Australia

 Sadaharu Horio and Jurek Wybraniec 

 

Ron Nyisztor, Louis Moncrieff and Monique Tippett

Pippa Tandy and Shelly Cowper

Michael Doherty, Lynne Norton, Peter Davidson and Sally Douglas

More images will be added in due course

Thank you 

Father and Daughter exhibition - Frank and Lynn Norton - The Wild Swans Art Group

Currently the Artworks are being hung in the art space. Further information on the artworks will posted in the next blog thank you .

Frank and Lynne Norton

Left to right - Kevin Robertson, Cynthia Ellis, Duncan Mckay, John Cullinane, Michael Doherty

   Peter Davidson                            Connie Petrillo

some of local supporters of the art space

2 Dogs Art Space Akashi Presents 色 Colour

Audience members viewing the exhibition

Caspar Fairhall Sally Douglass and Ando Hiroshige

This exhibition looks solely at the colour artists have used within their studio praxis from Edo Period Ukiyo-e woodblock prints to now.

Artists on exhibit

Michael Doherty     Kevin Robertson

Diokno Pasilan           Lynne Norton

 Cynthia Ellis   Sadaharu Horio  Jurek Wybraniec

Ken Wadrop

Cynthia Ellis Kevin Robertson Ando Hiroshige Monique Tippett Caspar Fairhall

Sadharu Horio Jurek Wybraniec Lynne Norton Connie Petrillo John Cullinane　

Michael Doherty Sally Douglas Diokno Pasilan　Linda Fardoe Louis Moncrieff

Toyhara Kunichika Ken Wadrop Melissa Nolan McDougall

2 Dogs Art Space Akashi Presents 色 Colour

2 Dogs Art Space Akashi

Presents

色

Colour

Kevin Robertson - 7.03 am

 oil on canvas, 41.5 cm h x 31 cm w

This exhibition looks solely at the colour artists have used within their studio praxis from Edo Period Ukiyo-e woodblock prints to now.

Artists on exhibit

Cynthia Ellis Kevin Robertson Ando Hiroshige Monique Tippett Caspar Fairhall

Sadaharu Horio Jurek Wybraniec Lynne Norton Connie Petrillo John Cullinane　

Michael Doherty Sally Douglas Diokno Pasilan　Linda Fardoe Louis Moncrieff

Toyhara Kunichika Ken Wadrop Melissa Nolan McDougall

Summer Exhibition Charcoals, greys and whites artworks by Six Western Australian Women Artists

3/4     of the Dance       Lynne Norton 

Summer Exhibition

Charcoals, greys and whites artworks

Some of the supporters for the exhibition 

Pippa Tandy 

 Shelley Cowper and Connie Petrillo

Six Western Australian Women Artists

Shelley Cowper

Pippa Tandy

Connie Petrillo

Shelly Cowper

Linda Fardoe

Lynn Norton

Melissa Nolan McDougall

 Melissa Nolan McDougall