Some artists create unique niches through their skills and creativity. The current exhibition at Bungendore Woodwork Gallery features four artists with a connection to trees – two work with trees as material and two with trees as subject
Terry Martin makes trees through carving wood in ways that utilise the grain and texture of the wood to its most creative beauty. His work also includes lots of bowls made with remarkable choices of varied coloured timbers and design.
Zina Burloiu creates functional objects out of wood. The design and artistic creativity woven into her work takes her objets to a higher plane. A simple spoon is turned into an object of striking beauty. There is a set of exquisitely crafted spinning tops some with colourful interlay.
Malcolm Pettigrove works in pen and ink. His tree based creations have been influenced by some Chinese ink drawing traditions. Like the Chinese ink traditions the drawings skate between reality and something that is an art creation. A tree with its roots out of the groundis an example.
Sue Cochrane is an artist with great sense of australian landscape and vegetation. Apparently her favourite area is the east and south Gippsland and its look is in the pictures.