Fourth joint exhibition for Pearl Beach artists

Pearl Beach artist Ms Marijke Greenway will exhibit her work along with Ms Pim Sarti in her fourth Show Off exhibition at Pearl Beach Community Hall from September 29 to October 1.

Pim and Marijke have painted en plein air side by side every week for the past 10 years.

This year the contrast between the artists' subject matter could not be greater.

Marijke travelled over the outback for three months last year and completed 40 paintings on-site.

These works were then internalised back in the safe haven of her studio to emphasise the magnitude that she remembered.

Moving from the outback to the homestead, Pim contemplated the intimate obsessions of her private sanctuary with a series of small still lifes, precisely arranged and then painted with a richness of colour.

Her large en plein air paintings of the boats, beaches and blooms of the Central Coast show the confidence of a mature artist, said Ms Greenway.

Email, 5 Sep 2012

Marijke Greenway, Pearl Beach