Four women
Works by the Hamilton Group, four women artists from the Waikato, will be exhibited at the C.S.A. Gallery until May 18. The Hamilton Group came into being from an exhibition of women's arts and crafts at the 1979 United Women’s Convention at the University of Waikato. Several more shows followed, and the four women exhibiting at the C.S.A., Pat Paterson, Heather ■ Lomas, Jean Fairburn and Joan Fear, are part of the original group. The four each have six works showing. Their styles and subjects are diverse. Jean Fairburn’s works are oils showing the four seasons. She says she had no early training in art, except formal drawing lessons at school.
“My interest grew into action when I met various painters in the Waikato in the 1930 s and 19405,” she said. At that time the Community Arts Service sent exhibitions around New Zealand and organised teaching seminars in Hamilton and Auckland.
Travelling in Europe and America provided “great stimulus,” and today Jean Fairbum says she paints what she sees around her. Heather Lomas’s works include four oils of
figures, a manuka forest in oils and pastel and one charcoal. She studied fine arts at the University of Canterbury, gaining a diploma in 1946 and taught art in schools for a year. She tutors occasionally for the Waikato Society of Arts and “paints when there is time.”
She says she is interested in making connections between all things and tries to express this in her paintings by exploring tonal and spatial relationships. Pat Paterson’s paintings are “earthsource” inspired. She says she has alays been attracted to the land’s strong forms and shapes and uses these in her work. Oils have the strength and three-dimen-sional characteristics required to convey her ideas. She was bom and educated in Australia and teaches oils at the Waikato Society of Arts’ school. Joan Fear’s series of oils are called "Tides of Change.” She says they are about personal change — change of direction, change of life, change of house.
Bora and educated in the Waikato, she was instrumental in beginning the Waikato Society of Arts School of Art
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