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Chinese watercolours exhibited

 

An exhibition of Chinese watercolour paintings will be held at the Bakehouse Gallery in Patonga from 11am to 4pm for three weekends, starting on Australia Day weekend, January 26, 27 and 28.

The gallerey owners, Jocelyn Maughan and Robin Norling, were recently invited to Beijing to judge an exhibition of over 2000 watercolours, organised by the China Artists Association, which represents artists from all the provinces.

The 200 winning paintings were invited to be exhibited at the Mosman Regional Art Gallery.

The Mosman exhibition, to be open daily between January 26 and February 3, proved too large so an overflow exhibition was made available for Patonga.

The Bakehouse Gallery normally only displays the work of Jocelyn and Robin, however they are pleased and keen to share what they discovered in Beijing.

Robin Norling said: "The label 'traditional' in contemporary western art circles is a dirty word.

"Critics uphold the creative inventiveness of modernity and condemn 'tradition' as being the heavy hand of the past that quells novelty and aesthetic freedom."

Jocelyn and Robin said that they had found "tradition", as seen in this exhibition, as skills in drawing and composition that have been used and refined for centuries that can be used to express a new and personal joy in the world.

"Who among us are not moved by the discovery of a trout hiding in a clear stream, or a cloud caught in a distant mountain crag?

"These things are personal and timeless and form the inspiration behind this exhibition of watercolours."

For further information, telephone 4379 1102.

Robin Norling, January 3