"A ROOM WITH A VIEW"
in support of Mental Health Week 2020
This year’s Mental Health Week theme is Strengthening Our Community – Live, Learn, Work, Play. At the House we aim to increase mental wellbeing in our local community. Nova Art provides a space for people to come together and be creative.
Image detail: Owen B Renfrey collage, mixed media on paper
Art during COVID
“Art has set my mind free from the confines of the ordinary but familiar walls of people and house into a grand and endless landscape of anything goes. Wildness engaged me, new techniques took me in new directions and my wellbeing certainly improved each time I sat down and began to paint, draw or paste. I am so grateful for this gift.”
Fiona Shanahan Sep 2020
“Words are limited and making art is a survival mechanism. It has given me an outlet, identity and structure to take my mind off my problems and a way of diverting from Covid.”
Jennifer Keating Sep 2020
“Nova Art gives me a creative outlet and I don’t know what I would do otherwise. It’s very hard for one person and this is a group that is organised which makes it easier. Creativity gives you a purpose.”
Robert Rosmarin Sep 2020
Works on Paper 2020
Owen B Renfrey
No title - acrylic on paper
Orion Yaskewych
‘Outside my window’ mixed media on paper
Orion Yaskewych
‘My backyard’ mixed media on paper
For sale $55
For sale $45
Kylie Steinhardt
‘My view in colour’ felt tip and pencil on paper
Natalie Leibowitz
‘Cactus and Flowers' mixed media on paper. Artist statement here
Natalie Leibowitz
‘Looking outside my window pot plants and stones’ mixed media on paper
Kylie Steinhardt
‘Little house with a view’ felt tip and pencil on paper
Jennifer Keating
'The Haven Pen' mixed media on paper
Joanne Morgan
'Continuous line still life' felt tip on paper
For sale $70
Joanne Morgan Poem response to Cavavy's Ithaca
Fiona Shanahan
‘Gaze upon me through your window pain’ frottage, pencil on paper.
For sale $60
For sale $30
Joanne Morgan Poem response to Cavavy's Ithaca
Jess Clare
No title - acrylic on paper
Jess Clare
’Windows to the soul’ acrylic on paper
Lynne Kells
‘Garden rooms’ mixed media on paper
Lynne Kells
‘Fantastical flora’ mixed media on paper
John Thorburn-Reed
‘The park, trees, clouds and a face in the sky’ mixed media on paper
For sale $60
For sale $60
Robert Rosmarin
‘Solitary neighbourhood’ pencil on paper
Robert Rosmarin
‘Popular love’ pencil on paper
John Thorburn-Reed
‘The Power of Being Free’ acrylic on paper
Jennifer Keating
‘World Beyond The Window’
Fiona Shanahan
‘Magical vegetables fill my view’
For sale $70
For sale $60
For sale $30
Ian Jones
Watercolour on paper
Ian Jones
Watercolour on paper
For sale $60
For sale $60
SOLD
Emma Griffiths
Frottage, pencil on paper
Emma Griffiths
No title, acrylic on paper
For sale $50
Anthony Exell
‘Social butterflies’ pencil on paper
Anthony Exell
‘Outside my window’ pencil on paper
Sue Conchie
Dreaming 1 digital photography
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Sue Conchie
Dreaming 2 digital photography
Poem about a forest
Leafy green forest
Raining upon the tree
A ladybird crawls along a twig Walking up to a clearing
I see an archway up ahead
An art easel beckons to me
to say “come and paint”
At the window sill, dear child, express the colours you can see!
Jennifer Keating, September 2020
A Room With a View
My mind wanders far and uncontained
Freedom of heart is my name
Gazing at the rough beauty of a tree
Unfilled branches waiting for me
A wild hedge points it's sprout
A garden filled with freesias shout
Singing the tune of my Soul
Birds choiring, drinking water from a bowl
Silence and inner debris mingle
My mind swarms and my heart tingles
My outside fills my inside
My inside needs my outside
What is it that I seek
Strength for the weary and hope for the weak.
Fiona Shanahan 2020