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4th March – 21 March
Opening night drinks and nibbles with the artist
6 – 8 pm Wed March 4
All welcome
An exhibition of paintings by Balmain artist Val Landa, whose works are birds-eye observations of the theatre of daily life.
Over the years Val Landa has spent many hours observing and recording people going about their everyday business, and finds it particularly rewarding watching them from above so they are unaware of being observed.
The artist can only begin to guess what people are thinking and doing, while noting how a person’s mood can be recognised by the nature of their walk, hand gesture, or the angle of the head.
Val explains that it is not easy to find the exact scenes that excite her, as she likes to consider the composition of the people and their surrounds:
I never stop looking and thinking about my subject matter. I am on a continuous search. My main focus is to achieve a balance of composition, colour, mark and particularly mood.
Val Landa has been painting and drawing since the early sixties, at which time she studied for three years with Stanislaus Rapotec. From 1961 to 1984 she studied portraiture with the Royal Art Society, painting at East Sydney Tech (now the National Art School) and was involved in a small life-drawing group whose members included Nora Heysen.
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