14 August - 27 September, 2010

FIVE ARTISTS FROM THE NSW SOUTH COAST
KEN TABER, MAYNARD WATERS, JOHN SHARMAN, GRACE PALEG and IAN LAKEY

OPENING SATURDAY 14th AUGUST at 2.30pm

The NSW South Coast is a unique, almost undiscovered, and thankfully underdeveloped part of the Australian coast. This, despite bordering Australia’s biggest city, Sydney, and hosting the continents's ninth largest urban area, Wollongong. This area is a haven for the sensitive painter, author, poet, musician, surfer or environmentalist. People like artists Ken Taber, Maynard Waters, John Sharman, Grace Paleg and Ian Lakey, all residents of this fragile coastal region, reduce this natural beauty to their two-dimensional canvas, board and paper for this exhibition.

Morning StormKEN TABER

Ken Taber is a self-taught artist who works in acrylics and oils, painting impressionistic landscapes and seascapes. He started painting seriously in 1968 and his early years were spent living on the water’s edges around Pittwater on Sydney Harbour. Ken has developed unique misty and romantic scenes, usually depicting lonely beaches or swamps, and readily acknowledges the influence of Turner, Monet and the early Australian Impressionists. He lives and works from his Garden Studios near Mogo on the NSW South Coast where the natural surroundings provide inspiration for his romantic morning beach scenes and misty backwater impressions.