Soul Food Design Depot and Gallery is hosting a new six-week exhibition with three artists, locals Maria Oates, Jacinta Haycock and the Central Coast's Aleida Pullar.
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Mixed media artist Maria Oates has been exhibiting her artwork for many years and has won many awards all over Australia.
After leaving the advertising world to marry and have her three children in the Central West she was able to explore her great love of painting and to extend her previous knowledge to exhibiting.
Maria now teaches four days a week at her Dubbo studio in "Creative Drawing and Painting for Beginners" and manages to exhibit as often as possible in local exhibitions and various galleries across the region.
The most recent works have been at Artspace Mudgee, solo exhibitions at The Fire Station and Two Doors in Dubbo. Her students will be showing their works in Dubbo at The Fire Station in June and Maria will be here in Narromine at "Soul Food Depot Gallery" in July.
"My contemporary work starts with that impulse to explore with an open mind and have my materials at hand," Maria said.
"The beginning is always scary yet full of promise and potential, the end result can be anticipated, a push/pull of the hand and the heart creating a tension with opposites, dark against light, smooth against rough, always playing with colour, balance, textures and mixed media.
"I have to admit sometimes a need to examine the interiors, the layers, or am I on the road to somewhere? It is completely up to the viewer to grab from this what they will.
"There is nothing to explain, only what they feel when you look at one of my paintings. Just enjoy."
Country girl Jacinta Haycock was born and raised on a large property past Carinda (200km north west of Warren).
She is now on a small property just out of Dubbo with her husband and 11 children (ranging from four to 20 years), still embracing the beautiful country lifestyle.
She has always had a passion for art especially painting and mixed media and has a deep love for colour.
Jacinta said her inspiration of her artworks came from a varity of ideas surrounding personal experiences but almost always included vibrate and innumerable amounts of colour.
"I aim to make people feel happy through the use of colour and I am able to do this through the inspiration of my family who are the light of my life," she said.
Ceramic artist Aleida Pullar from Studio Latitude 33 at Avoca on the Central Coast creates amazing ceramics and shibori dyed linens using the traditional Japanese art of tie dying.
She was born in Friesland, the Netherlands, and her family emigrated to Australia in 1950. She studied at the Newcastle National Art School and Newcastle Teacher's College.
Aleida has taught in high schools, TAFE and CAE and she ran Gallery Latitude 33 for five years at Avoca Beach. She is currently working in her studio and has worked with Sturt in Mittagong, Kerrie Low Gallery in Newtown and Chinaclay in Clovelly among others.
Gallery opening hours at Soul Food Design Depot and Gallery are 9.30am to 4pm daily Monday to Saturday. The Loading Dock take-away window opens daily from 7.30am.
The Gallery Floor is also available for event hire - please call Amanda at Soul Food Design Depot and Gallery on 6889 7997.
