Emily Grace Hill

Foodies as artists

2012-01-09T20:23:00.000+13:00

Tomatoes! Luscious ripe and ready for summer. I am thankful for garden produce that artistically adorns the table and overflows the trug strongly hinting at being made into preserves.
Food art is summer's flow, culinary centre pieces are consumed and conversation spills around its enjoyment.

Wouldn't it be nice if art was as accessible as tasty new potatoes and juicy strawberries? Discerning the finer flavours and subtleties does require some consideration and curiosity not too disimilar to the visual artists' produce.
Taste is a developed sense, art appreciation is too.

It is hard to not want to draw and paint food, I have done before and maybe this summer again...

A little bit of yellow duplo

2011-12-06T11:31:00.001+13:00

This little bit of duplo makes me smile.

Some subject matter is more fun than others.

Yellow

is my

favourite

colour

Sovereignty and mis-understanding

2011-11-18T17:11:00.001+13:00

Detail of 'Te Tiriti O Waitangi'

working images on sovereignty

Te Tiriti O Waitangi continues to provoke and challenge my work and the way that as artists we engage in the presentation of its meaning. The constant pull and push of how this gets worked out in art practice in Aotearoa is both superficial and intense. What is our dialogue as artists? How are we investigating identity collaborately or are we content to remain separate entities as we explore our identity?
I am challenged to keep listening and work together as artists, but how does this look? More questions than answers arise in this journey. Are there examples of beauty that convey the heart of this precious treaty?

Giggling as I go

2011-11-14T12:50:00.001+13:00

'Cultural Transition' was only one of many works that brought a giggle as I viewed the recent exhibition The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy. Here I have added Colin McCahon's 1959 work 'Tomorrow will be the same but not as this is' which Percy's 'Cultural Transistion' references.
Percy was a clever artist and his art captures a humour that is rarely shared in laugh out loud experiences in gallery viewing.

Robert Nettleton FIELD's art praxis

2011-10-28T11:21:00.000+13:00

Epworth Farm, c 1928
oil on hardboard
330 mm x 378 mm
(Auckland City Art Gallery)

http://www.art-newzealand.com/Issues11to20/field.htm

October's highlight

2011-10-25T12:16:00.000+13:00

New Abstract Oct 2011

Particularly pleased with this one

2011-09-04T23:12:00.001+12:00

Sometimes one does some piece of work and then stands back and wishes it was done on more expensive, archival paper. This is one of those occasions. I was quite happy with it, still am. I hope you enjoy this too.

Like it!

2011-08-31T15:23:00.000+12:00

Two recent works that explore the name Tauranga- city of refuge or safe anchorage.

Gothic Revival Architecture

2011-08-09T23:07:00.000+12:00

This pretty stunning piece of architecture is Deane and Woodward's Gothic Revival for the Natural History Museum, Oxford. I like it.

Capturing light

2011-07-22T18:40:00.000+12:00

Photograph taken June 2011

Try this at home...

2011-02-20T22:51:00.001+13:00

This is a new season. Share it with friends, eat together and be inspired in the conversation that flows.
Eat a good meal with lovelies.

Food for thought... feed someone and enjoy their company or be fed and enjoy the conversation.

There are new sights and smells and recipes to invent...

HOW TO LEAVE A COMMENT

2011-02-07T08:15:00.001+13:00

For all you great followers and website viewers, I have adjusted the comment settings so it should be possible for you to leave a comment. If it is still difficult let me know via the commission 'here' email link.

Each week I'll endeavour to put a sketch or small drawing on the site, perhaps some paper works and post inspiring ideas and pictures of my work so that you can follow what is going on in my art journey.

Na Emily

Turning Corners

2009-07-18T17:06:00.001+12:00

When you turn a corner there is a degree of unknown. We try to anticipate what is coming and prepare ourselves. We read maps and we look for ways to get familiar prior to the drive. However all is lost if a dense fog sets in. Every detail of the road is examined much more. The degree of concentration heightens and our senses become more alert to the road. Speed becomes less of an issue.

Corners come and corners go

surfaces, contours, scenery moves along

This vehicle I'm driving takes me places

While getting there

Observe the signs

Notice the landscape

Remember

the journey

Not so very far from home

2008-05-29T16:55:00.000+12:00

I watched a glorious sunrise a few days ago and thought how beautifully the sky was painted. I ponder in a moment like this how beauty calls my soul to look to the Creator of paint and beauty and simply sigh for lack of adequate language. Beauty and glory, Glory and beauty... One is nestled near the other. In my sojourning I reach to honour the One who made beauty and whose Glory leaks in that place. I search to paint the sky, maybe not as my Creator but nevertheless to use a large paintbrush and rich vivid colours, wide armstrokes and to generate beauty that catches the viewer in his steps even if but only for a moment. He is the Beauty I seek to reflect, the small beauty a mere copy of his masterpiece yet a delighted apprentice in his school.

Coffee Art

2007-11-17T14:29:00.001+13:00

Have you ever pondered the thought that creativity exudes through all facets of life? Creativity will escape into the mundane and banal areas of our lives if we aren't making art intentionally. The need to create will be compensated in our very ordinary daily patterns and routines.

Spring Exchanges with Autumn

2007-10-13T19:06:00.002+13:00

New Exhibition Autumn Leaves is now showing at Tauranga's Balham Gallery, 721 Cameron Road. Exhibition runs from the 11th of October until the 31st.

My intention with this show is to show a progression of Autumn leaves as they change colour in this season.

Definition: leaf
n. (pl. leaves)
1 a flattened structure of a plant, typically green and blade-like, in which photosynthesis and transpiration mainly take place.  (often in phr. in/into leaf) the state of having leaves.
2 a single thickness of paper, especially in a book.
3 gold, silver, or other metal in the form of very thin foil.
4 the part of a door, shutter, or table that is hinged or may be inserted.
v.
1 (of a plant) put out new leaves.
2 (leaf through) turn over (pages or papers), reading them quickly or casually.
– PHRASES turn over a new leaf start to act or behave in a better way.
– DERIVATIVES leafage n. -leafed adj. leafless adj. leaf-like adj.
– ORIGIN OE lUaf, of Gmc origin.

Healing Leaves

2007-07-24T22:35:00.000+12:00

Leaves are my current subject matter. My fascination with their form, their lifecycle and changing colours has captivated my painting for the last 3 months. In Revelation, the final book of the Bible, the leaves from the tree of life are spoken of as healing for the nations.

Artist as Social Geographer?

2006-12-03T14:14:00.000+13:00

The Concise Oxford Dictionary's definition of social geography is
· n. the study of people and their environment with particular emphasis on social factors.

As artists are we not to a degree social geographers? We study with our observations and presentations. We draw and paint, express and create works that describe people and their environment. Consumer driven art is for pretty things, harmonious and melodic resolution and happy endings. But as artistic social geographers one can not ignore the erosion, the morphing and mutating of our changing environment. A landscape must equally present the overdevelopment, the violation of the land as well as its natural beauty. The dynamism of our world demands accurate categorising in this era as much as when the early explorers recorded newly encountered species cataloguing and identifying these in their drawings.

The challenge is to chose how to engage with our subject matter in a manner that is truthful...

Unlocking the Arts

2006-12-02T15:40:00.000+13:00

Power

That through the growing faculties of sense

Doth like an agent of the one great Mind

Create, creator and receiver both.

-WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The Prelude

When the writer's Idea is revealed or incarnate by his Energy, then, and only then, can his Power work on the world. More briefly and obviously, a book [add] (a painting, a composition or any other art form) has no influence till somebody read it.
p111 Sayers, Dorothy L. in The Mind of the Maker (Harper & Row: SanFrancisco, 1987)

“The arts always play an important role in helping societies consider the implications of science and new technology. They help us engage with new ideas and help focus debate on issues of concern." Judith Tizard -Minister for Culture and Heritage NZ

What is the role of the arts in Aotearoa in this generation?

How does an artist provoke, influence and determine reality?