Red Spot Gallery - Rotorua Art Gallery supporting local artists
TALULAH BELLE LAUTREC-NUNES
My love of the expressionist paintings by the Fauves, Die Brucke, Gauguin and the Nabis has inspired my recent palate knife paintings. Their use of intensely vivid non-naturalistic colours and a degree of abstraction and distortion of form appeals to the avant-garde in me.
I work in my light and airy bush studio under the mountain Otanewainuku near Tauranga, using a large range of colours, painting wet into wet. By applying paint like butter, using pure colour to its greatest effect and a little imagination, images evolve that bear little or no resemblance to natural appearances.
These bold and emotive images leap from the canvas.
I love the neo-expressionist paintings of New Zealand artist Rudi Gopas with his use of strong yellows inspired by Van Gogh and the gestural and linear treatment in works by Toss Woollaston. “Think slowly and paint swiftly” Toss Woollaston
Talulah has been painting for 10 years.
She has a diploma of creativity and art (Hons) from the Learning Connexion, Wellington.