Rachael Errington
Midnight Study III $1,200 Status: Available
Serenity $5,250 Status: Available
A Morning Walk $3,800 Status: Available
Spring Lake $1,800 Status: Sold
Sunrise Through The Mist $2,800 Status: Sold
Warm Evening Light $5,250 Status: Available
The Red Forest $5,250 Status: Sold
Moon Over The Lake $1,800 Status: Available
Moonlight $5,250 Status: Sold
Midnight Study $1,200 Status: Sold
The Forest $5,250 Status: Sold
Autumn Lake $1,800 Status: Available
Sunrise $7,250 Status: Available
Twilight $8,500 Status: Available
Autumn Storm Over Lake $6,250 Status: Available
Bright, Bright Forest $4,800 Status: Available
Queens Wood $3,800 Status: Sold
Misty Early Morning $9,500 Status: Available
‘A New Journey’
Venue:Exhibitions Gallery, 20 Brandon Street, Wellington. Phone 04 4996356
enquiries: ron@exhibitionsgallery.co.nz
Rachael Errington’s first painting, when she was just three years of age was a brightly coloured crayon picture on the freshly painted white hallway.
Rachael grew up in the middle of an English wood where she, with her brother, spent most of their time building dens and treehouses.
This beginning has undoubtedly cemented Rachael’s enduring fascination with trees.
Although Rachael’s BA (Hons) is in Illustration, her studies included photography, textiles and printmaking; all of which have informed the way she paints now. After various creative endeavours and travels, including a research trip to Asia to study the influence culture has on art; Rachael relocated to New Zealand and is now absorbed in the diversity that this landscape presents.
As time has progressed, Rachael’s tree paintings have taken on a life of their own. Intricate textures of bark created with modelling paste and other ‘secret’ compounds are tactile and 3-dimensional. The colours are the depth and warmth of autumn and the fresh lime green tones of spring. Fascinated by the ever-changing play of filtered light Rachael encourages the viewer to step into the woods, to smell it, to feel it and to be soothed.
While formulating the structure and colours of the work in her mind Rachael freely admits to spending quite a lot of time staring at a blank canvas.
“I’m endlessly fascinated with using different techniques to recreate colours. I love been able to squash colour across a surface”.
While Rachael states that Edgar Degas and Gustav Klimt are artists that have influenced her, she constantly draws inspiration while walking and hiking and from her extensive photography collection, to date over 5000 images.
“My work is emotive – It is all I ever want to do. “
exhibition on until August 17th
