I enjoy being part of the NSAS member shows at the Suter Art Gallery in Nelson when I can. Below is a look at snippets of my process, so you can see examples of why I'm not a completer-finisher and cannot resist experiments. This means few pieces end up in a frame, but in recent months I've been finishing a lot of abandoned work, so stay tuned.
Clay has also been calling me and I've been a member of the Motueka Pottery Workshop for a year or so, which is another reason my framed output has been reduced. Did I mention the encaustic wax adventure?
Beneath is a snippet of my instagram feed. For more images than this webiste allows me to show, you can go to instagram @eleanorjanecampion
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
Making is joy
Making art with pigments in oil, wax, inks. Brushes. Knives. Blow torch. Light. These are the tools I use to capture the paintings which I perceive in nature, life's moments and people's faces.
Aristotle said that an image or colour, being perceived by the visual sense, changes us physically; that something of the image became part of us.
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 when the work is made. Certainly, once it is on the canvas, it is a new painting as perceived by others' own absolutely unique response. The work literally becomes theirs.
I accept commissions for portraits of people and places. In between, I paint whatever takes my imagination. Right now, aided by an amazing art 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.
My instagram page has my latest work on @eleanorjanecampion.
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