Exhibition of paintings
Helen Rockel and Jocelyn Wells, two 1971 honours students from the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts, have combined in an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and prints at the Canterbury Society of Arts gallery in Gloucester Street.
Helen Rockel exhibits 17 paintings, some of them quite large, which all Involve people. She uses expressionist brushwork and bathes most of her subjects in a warm diffused light. In most paintings, spatial illusion is suggested by chiaroscuro means but in No. 8, for example, she uses the tonal and spatial properties of colour with equal success. Several drawings and mono prints reveal her as a draughtswoman of considerable skill. Jocelyn Wells’s paintings are abstract works relying largely on colour to evoke moods that are generally ones of quiet harmony, broken by occasional passages of texture or arrangements of decorative symbols. The work of the twp painters combines well inj an exhibition that is refreshingly modest in its aims and is
well executed within the stated areas of concern of both exhibitors. The exhibition will remain open until December 15. —G.T.M.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32779, 2 December 1971, Page 16
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