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Artist Exhibitions:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
The Goulburn Club, Market St,
Goulburn. Nov-Dec 2007,Nov
2005, Oct-Nov 2003.
Artist of the Month, Goulburn
Arts & Crafts Society, March,
2004
Juanita's Studio Gallery
Austinmer, May 2006
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Juanita's Studio-Gallery,
Austinmere 2002 - 2007
The Artist's Shed, Queanbeyan,
"Shed Nudes" Feb ...
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Artist Galleries:
JUANITA STUDIO GALLERY, 35
Asquith St, AUSTINMER, NSW
AUSTRALIA
Phone 61 2 42671229
THE ARTISTS' SHED, 14 Foster
St, QUEANBEYAN NSW AUSTRALIA
Phone 61 2 6297 0336
Goulburn & District Art and
Craft Society, Bourke and
Verner St GOULBURN NSW 2580...
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Artist Reviews:
**PUBLISHED in the ARTIST'S
PALETTE Issue No. 40 January,
2006:
Two Articles - "Insight" and
"Demonstration":-
"Insight - The Inner Spirit"
(By Justyna Lupa): "Ekaterina
Mortensen is a painter that's
passionate about many
subjects. To her every face is
beautiful and tells a story
and every landscape is a
complex...
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Collections:
Mr & Mrs P Sykes, Southern
Tablelands, NSW
Goldsmith Street Clinic,
Southern Tablelands, NSW...
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Commissions:
I have done commission works
for private individuals
including:
portraits of adults and
children
pet portraits
flowers.
If you would like any of my
paintings that have been sold,
please contact me to discuss
your requirements. While I
consider it unethical to
attempt to paint the same
painting, I will ...
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Artist Statement for Ekaterina Mortensen
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I will paint your favourite portrait, pet, landscape, buildings, flowers and so on by commission.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ekaterina was born and educated in Leningrad, USSR, now St Petersburg. She excelled in art at school. Her parents and an aunt had some artistic talent, enjoying drawing and painting. Her grandparents' small collection of their own works were lost or destroyed during the siege of Leningrad.
Graduating in Computer Engineering with the highest award, Ekaterina tried several jobs before working at the State Russian Museum publishing branch. Here she lived and worked with her beloved masters, producing high quality art books.
On migrating to Australia, Ekaterina has been encouraged by her Australian husband and new friends to sell her paintings.
She has come to love the natural and cultural beauties of Australia and its very different people, but still misses the forests of her homeland and of course the great cultural beauty of St Petersburg.
At her Goulburn Solo Exhibition in 2003, well known local professional artist and art lecturer, Bob Millis, said that Ekaterina is an up-coming artist whose art will soon be shown in many places around Australia. "Now is the time to buy," he said, "while her prices are still low." In effect her art can be enjoyed not only in itself but also treated as art investment, part of your personal investment management.
Since then she has had works hanging in Wollongong, Sydney and Melbourne.
ABOUT MY ART
There are so many things that fascinate me: significant views, small details, bright sunsets, pale grey days, young, old. I like life and all the manifestations of nature. This is probably why I find it difficult to prevent myself from depicting all the objects and details I see. For many years the subject of nature has been inexhaustible for me and remains so, as seen in my paintings of flowers, trees and landscapes. I have found new sources of enjoyment in painting not only more of man's structures and cultural landscapes but also people themselves. In my natural scenes, I would like the viewer to feel as I do, a sense of rest and escape. Many of my landscapes reveal this.
Where my earlier works were mainly watercolours I experimented with and settled with acrylics for some time and now have changed to oils.
I have explored my belief that everything in the world has its own time. Whether animate or inanimate it is born, grows, has a peak in its life term and then decays and dies. I have such emotions whether painting rocks in the Kosciusko alpine areas or rocks man has arranged in a wall as in Steps To Nowhere. This wall and steps were built for a long gone purpose, but remain as relics until nature or man finally destroy them. So they symbolise the impermanence of all things as does the spider web in Early Morning Jewellery. I appreciate the harmonious shapes in nature and in man's structures, and I try to show this as in Spire, Sails and Steps. In this and also in The Opera House in the Evening Light and the spider web, I see not only these beautiful shapes but also the different ages and stages in life. Perhaps the ages of man in my portraits of children, through to old age are a microcosim of the greater and almost infinite time spans of nature.
My main purpose is to pass on my love for life in general and for our environment. I try to achieve a painting pleasant to the eye or which reminds us of something pleasant. Colour, shape, line and design complete the painting in a technical sense. It is important the work is my impression of reality and emphases the subject's beauty.
I have developed a strong preference to using acrylics and am continuing to explore the versatility of this media. I have really been enjoying painting of portraits in acrylics and now in oils.
MEMBER OF:
Goulburn Art Club Inc.
Southern Tablelands Art
Updated on 13th October, 2007
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