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Russ McLean Exhibition
Article in Queenstown Times re Russ McLean Exhibition
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Russ McLean Exhibition
Photographer focuses on landscape
By James Beech on Fri, 16 Mar 2012
Arrowtown Gallery manager Anne Mackersy admires new works by Lake Hayes photographer Russ McLean. They are destined for exhibition and retail from April 5. Photo by James Beech.
Lake Hayes landscape photographer Russ McLean sits and waits for hours in often freezing temperatures to capture the perfect moment.His skills with a camera and great patience formed the foundations of his new exhibition, “My Lens on the Landscape”, opening in the Arrowtown Gallery on Thursday, April 5, for two weeks.
The centrepiece of the collection is a large image of Aoraki-Mt Cook titled Dawn Glow, which depicts the day’s first rays of sun lighting the mountain.
There will be a dozen other framed photographs in the section.
A series of 10 images of the Maniototo landscape is titled Symbol and Metaphor.
The Dunedin-born 64-year-old developed his passion for photography in 2007 and attended many workshops in New Zealand, Australia and Scotland. He first exhibited in the gallery two years ago.
Gallery manager Anne Mackersy said McLean “has a huge amount of patience to wait for the exact moment for that image and he has a stunning eye for what he does”.
McLean said he was drawn to the landscape, possibly because of his academic background as a geographer.
“I do not attempt to produce visual records, as in ‘I was there and saw this’. Rather, I attempt to communicate ‘I was in this place and saw it like this’.
“This approach is more ‘impressionistic’ than ‘representational’ as it asks viewers to look at everyday subjects in a way that they possibly have never done before. Hopefully, it will also evoke an emotional response, as for an image to really succeed it needs to evoke something – awe, wonder or any one of a thousand different responses.”
The photographer is expected to attend the launch of “My Lens on the Landscape” at the gallery in Berkshire St on April 5 at 5.30pm to 7.30pm. Invitation is by request via info@arrowtowngallery.com.
Russ McLean Exhibition
Upcoming exhibition of Russ McLean’s new work opening 5 April.
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Douglas Badcock painting found
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/arrowtown/192776/treasure-behind-sofa
Treasure behind sofa
By James Beech on Sat, 31 Dec 2011
Your Town: Arrowtown | News: Queenstown Lakes
A backdrop to a Women’s Institute flower show in Arrowtown almost 50 years ago and forgotten since 1976, was discovered by chance to be an original painting by a master Otago artist, worth $17,500.
The late Douglas Badcock was asked to create the oil on board painting of Mt Alfred and a rustic dwelling with Mt Earnslaw in the background, near Glenorchy, by Jeunesse Reid, of the Glenpanel homestead on Ladies Mile, Queenstown, in 1965.
After the flower show, it was displayed in the billiard room at Glenpanel, but the intention to frame it was not fulfilled. The family sold Glenpanel in 1976 and the painting was packed away.
Arrowtown Gallery owner Simon Beadle said he was asked by the family to value a few paintings before they left for Australia about a year ago.
“I saw it behind a couch in three pieces and I said, `That’s a Badcock and too good to be stuck behind a sofa.’”I was excited. I love Badcock’s paintings of the era of the 1960s, for his lovely, free-flowing style.”
Mr Beadle seamlessly glued the unsigned pieces back together then carefully touched up, revarnished and framed the piece for display and sale in the Arrowtown Gallery.
The painting measures about 2m by 1m. It features an unusual shade for the sky and some artistic licence with geographical scale, he said.
“I think it would have been done reasonably quicker than his commissioned work, but a lot of his paintings were this way, with bold brush strokes.
“This is just a wee bit more free-flowing, in an expressionist style.”
Badcock was born in Balclutha in 1922 and eventually made Queenstown, then Speargrass Flat, near Arrowtown, his home, with wife Bonnie and their four children.
Their three sons became artists in their own right. The couple moved to Clyde before the end of the century and he died in 2009 after she died in 2001.
Badcock won first prize in the Kelliher Art competition in 1965 and wrote three books. He preferred to paint landscapes in oils on site and had a reputation for selling out exhibitions.
His paintings grace the collections of Queen Elizabeth II and the King of Thailand.
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Our new Arrowtown Gallery premises are in ‘The Old Garage’ at 8 Berkshire St, Arrowtown
You will find us on the left hand corner of the roundabout,
just before you drop down the hill to the shopping area on Buckingham Street.
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