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The latest exhibition at Mangawhai Artists Gallery is showcasing the work of three artists – Carol Prescott, Shaelagh Jones and Ivy Xie – who are exhibiting together for the first time.
The artists have woven their interest in colour, shape and form together in their own distinctive ways, in an exhibition they have called ‘Threads of life – petals to ice’.
Carol Prescott is a glass artist who creates whimsical, light-catching sculptures. Her images have a soft, luminous look, with a metallic patina shining through. However, her process is anything but soft. Using the ‘lost wax’ method of casting glass, she deals with a hot fiery furnace, sharp glass and a precise method to achieve her results.
Shaelagh Jones is an acrylic painter who is fascinated by flora, particularly understated flowers and forms. The humble dandelion produces the brightest yellow and a tangle of weeds can be an awesome subject to paint. As a landscape designer in a previous time, she can’t ignore form either. Seed pods to twisty branches are all represented in her bright colourful works.
Ivy Xie, a photographer in her spare time, loves to capture what nature does so magnificently. Her images are of local Mangawhai scenes, the misty hills, rugged coastlines and open countryside of New Zealand Aotearoa, and the raw, other worldly beauty of Iceland and Greenland where it feels nature shapes the land and soul. For the first time, Ivy is exhibiting drone photography – offering a sense of scale, solitude and drama that can’t be seen from the ground.
Pop into the gallery and step into a world of shifting perspectives and shared emotion, and discover where the threads lead.
‘Threads of life’ is showing at the Mangawhai Artists Gallery, 10.30am to 3.30pm (from 9am on Saturday), daily until Thursday October 16.
