Auguste Blackman 'Electric Owl' organic & textural

Auguste Blackman 'Electric Owl' organic & texturalElectric with life and colour, this painting presents the owl as both sentinel and riddle a timeless emblem of instinct, wisdom, and the worlds we sense but cannot quite see. Colour surges across the surface in confident, expressive gestures, balancing instinctive energy with moments of surprising tenderness. The result is a work that feels at once grounded in nature and untethered by it, pulling the viewer into a lush, imaginative realm. Layers of

terrace houses wearing and clouds stirring – a storm brews

gouache on paper

Whether a raw chicken in the manner of a nude

including in public galleries

Hayman uses pattern to generate a sense of movement

this work is a bare-faced homage to the female body

'No Borders Music Festival'

modern art and Olsen

Her family narrowly escaped the Holocaust

This exhibition toured to the Solander Gallery in Wellington

the faces populating ‘Women’ (the series from which this work stems) are Auguste’s muses

surrounded by silhouetted cowboys