I am anticipating being part of the NSAS Autumn Show at the Suter Art Gallery in Nelson during April.
Below is a sneak preview at bits of my process. Hover over the images for captions.
Beneath them is a snippet of my instagram feed. For more images, go to instagram @eleanorjanecampion
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A new way to sketch when it just hasn't come together
Sketching in the studio. Keeping it free as an eye roaming a landscape - or that's the aim
A new way to sketch when it just hasn't come together
My joy
Making art with pigments in oil, wax, inks. Brushes.  Knives.  Blow torch. Light.  These are the tools I use to capture the paintings I perceive in nature, life's moments and people's faces.
Aristotle said that an image or colour being perceived by the visual sense changed us physically, that something of the image became part of us.
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I do too. I take that inward response and place it in the world through art-making. It's the reason I paint. To experience it deeply. And possibly others will connect too. Certainly, once it is on the canvas, it can be perceived by others who can make their own absolutely unique response. The work literally becomes theirs.
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I accept commissions for portraits of people and places. In between, I paint whatever takes my imagination. Right now, aided by an amazing technician in Motueka, New Zealand, I am painting on boards prepared to the same specifications as iconographers. It has a been a joy. I have even prayed in front of the canvases before I begin, as the iconographers do.
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My instagram page has my latest work on @ejanecampion.
