Kowhai Studio
Barbara’s studio and gallery are open to the public most days.
Please phone before you visit to be sure.
Barbara at work in her studio.
Barbara’s studio and gallery are located in her cliff-top home, overlooking Long Bay and the Hauraki Gulf. This extraordinary location provides ongoing inspiration for Barbara’s work. The dramatic landforms and ever-changing weather patterns are reflected in her vibrant landscape, still-life and floral paintings.
The purpose-built gallery space. The gallery includes watercolours by Coromandel artist, the late Patrick Greene, whose paintings of local scenes are refreshingly quirky.
17 December 2019
The 31st Annual Coromandel Christmas Art Exhibition opened with a very lively gala event on Sunday 15 December in Hauraki House, Coromandel Town.
Barbara has 3 of her latest paintings on view, and is just one of over 40 artists who are participating, covering a wide variety of artistic disciplines — ceramics, sculptures, glass art, paintings, drawings, wood craft, weavings, mixed media, jewellery, print making, etc.
This is a “free entry” exhibition and is open from 10am to 4pm daily through to Saturday 11th January 2020 (excluding Christmas Day).
This is definitely a “NOT TO BE MISSED, MUST SEE” exhibition.
What people say about Barbara’s paintings:
“Jaw dropping colour and intensity.”
“Vibrant, alive, passionate!”
“Paintings with feeling.”
“Beautiful expressive work”
“Inspirational and unique”
“Spontaneous, wow.”
“You have undressed the landscape and discovered the under truth.”
“...your landscapes are on the verge of escape. But this is their great delight...”
“...to see you subjecting the expression of colour to the discipline of the landform almost to the point of disintegration...””
“I admired the painterly quality of the work, the freestyle where every brush stroke says a lot. You cannot rationalise or explain it, there is something bound up in the brush strokes that is completely resolved.”
“ Your paintings speak to my soul and I can’t really believe I now have one on my wall.”
“This work epitomises the qualities of a contemporary context and the risk-taking we were looking for.
A very deserving Premier award winner ”