| Marian Quigley DRAWING the human form using a live model continues to be an important practice for all artists, regardless of their style or medium. Sandra Peeters, who moved to Phillip Island from Tasmania five years ago, is the co-ordinator of the Artists’ Society of Phillip Island bi-monthly life drawing sessions. Her recent exhibition Up, Down, Inside Out at the Stephen McLaughlan Gallery in Melbourne utilised some of her own drawings from these sessions. Sandra explains her current art practice as a mixture of abstract and figurative painting, drawing and collage which has developed and progressed over the past 15 years or so. “I tend to be interested in both the gravity and humour of everyday life, and the complex ways in which people go about it, how they think about themselves and how they relate to each other. |  Black Rain by Sandra Peeters |
She aims to produce a unique work of art that will communicate with “someone, somewhere in some way”.
Dreamland 1 by Sandra Peeters During the past five years, she has enjoyed participating in the bi-monthly life drawing sessions as well as attending fortnightly life drawing classes in Melbourne. As time went on, she found she had quite a collection of figure drawings, large and small, some of which particularly appealed to her for one reason or another. She put these away for possible future use without having any firm ideas in mind.
Towards the end of last year she started playing with the images she had cut out, and experimenting with inks to create vibrantly coloured, randomly patterned sheets of paper. Considering how she could combine these two things, she began tearing up the coloured sheets and placing them this way and that in combination with selected life drawings until, together, they formed a satisfying and often surprising, arrangement.
The result was her recent exhibition titled “Up, Down, Inside out”. Images from the exhibition can also be seen on her and her partner and fellow artist, Warren Nichols’ website: www.wazandraart.com.
Sandra Peeters is represented by Mingara Gallery in Cowes.
Towards the end of last year she started playing with the images she had cut out, and experimenting with inks to create vibrantly coloured, randomly patterned sheets of paper. Considering how she could combine these two things, she began tearing up the coloured sheets and placing them this way and that in combination with selected life drawings until, together, they formed a satisfying and often surprising, arrangement.
The result was her recent exhibition titled “Up, Down, Inside out”. Images from the exhibition can also be seen on her and her partner and fellow artist, Warren Nichols’ website: www.wazandraart.com.
Sandra Peeters is represented by Mingara Gallery in Cowes.