Vivid Colours In Work-Of Artist

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31967, 19 April 1969, Page 2

Vivid Colours In WorkOf Artist

Rosemary Campbell loves colour and, as an artist, fills canvas after canvas with it.

‘T’ve pulled in my horns a bit since I left art school, though," she said ruefully. Miss Campbell (in private life, Mrs R. M. Greer, of Timaru) is in Christchurch for an exhibition of her paintings. Entitled “Mainly Red,” the exhibition will open tonight at the Several Arts Gallery and will run until May 2.

Since graduating with honours from the Ham School of Art in 1965, Miss Campbell has held a small, one-man exhibition in Tiniaru and a larger one in Dunedin two years ago.

With art, she associates another of her interests—music. When painting she expresses herself with colour as a substitute for sound.

Not For Money Painting is not a moneymaking venture for her.

“It is somehing I just have to do, but it is not just a matter of self expression. It is not valid unless it communicates something." Miss Campbell gave up fulltime for part-time teaching to allow herself more time for painting. She paints at least four hours a day, and when not painting she is “thinking about It." The paintings in her exhibtion (about 45 in all) are chosen from 18 months work.

The sensation of colour is ; vivid. Different shapes, repeated in different themes, are all used as vehicles for colour.

Miss Campbell, whose husband is a builder, teaches at Timaru Girls’ High School, where she also takes the school orchestra. She paints in water colours and oils and her ambition is “just to get better.”