Still life art exhibited

An exhibition featuring still life art will be held in Patonga over the next four weeks.

"If you drop into the Patonga Bakehouse Gallery over the next month of so, you will see lemons, onions, fish and pumpkins etc," according to gallery owner, curator Jocelyn Maughan.

"As well as these familiar items, you will see art - that is the way these things are manipulated to form pictorial compositions; how a round object can fill a rectangle, how a fold in a newspaper can activate the top left hand corner, or how a cast shadow can link two entirely different textures.

"For artists, the intrigue will always be formal concerns - light, space, volume, rather than potatoes and onions, or for that matter socio-economic or sexual politics.

"Fashions in art come and go. Presently still-life is definitely 'out'," she said.

"The 1940s Australian artist Margaret Preston said that 'The still-life table is the laboratory of the artist'.

"Come and see the results of our laboratory at work," said Jocelyn Maughan.

The Patonga Bakehouse Gallery is open from 11am to 3pm every Sunday or by appointment on 4379 1102.

Letter, May 26 Robin Norling, Jocelyn Maughan, Patonga Bakehouse Gallery