N.Z. painters exhibit works in London

Press, 21 February 1987, Page 14

N.Z. painters exhibit works in London

By

ROBIN CHARTERIS,

in London

Individual exhibitions of the work of a young New Zealand painter and another who has worked and studied in N.Z. are being staged in London. Noel Ivanoff, aged 22, who attended the Otago

Polytechnic School of Fine Art for three years and won the Abernethy painting prize and the David Con-Hutton Memorial Scholarship in 1984, has an exhibition of landscapes in oils and water-colours opening on March 3 at the Alba Fine Art Gallery, Kew. Entitled “Sea, Earth, Sky,” the exhibition on a one-year post-graduate course, Mr Ivanoff took at St Martins School, of Art, London. Mr Ivanoff, who was born in Wellington, graduated with a certificate in advanced studies from St Martins last year. Since then, he has extended his stay in London by working as a carpenter and travelling, studying artists and visiting galleries throughout Europe. He toured Yugoslavia, Turkey and Bulgaria, his father’s homeland,, and is particularly interested in Eastern European art. A private exhibition of paintings by Colette Morey de Morand is also being held. She is a French-born artist who has studied and lectured in New Zealand and participated in some 20 New Zealand exhibitions. She is known in New Zealand by her married name of

Colette Randa. She has been painting recently in France. Her exhibition, which began last week at the Stephen Bartley Gallery, Chelsea, and will run until March 7, features a new series of abstract works loosely based on the landscape of the Bois Rateau area of France.

Mrs Randa, who is 43, lived in Wellington and Christchurch for 12 years, studying under Paul Olds and John Drawbridge. She was also a lecturer at the New Zealand school of Pharmacy. She has been living in London as a professional artist since 1975.