As I See It... (Sold)Year : 2008
Size : 91 x 91 cm
Acrylic On Canvas
Attachment (Sold)Year : 2008
Size : 122 x 66 cm
Acrylic On Canvas
AuraYear : 2008
Size : 136 x 110 cm
Acrylic On Canvas
Blue Endearment (Sold)Year : 2008
Size : 91 x 91 cm
Acrylic On Canvas
Couplet (Sold)Year : 2008
Size : 92 x 142 cm
Acrylic On Canvas
Entanglement (Sold)Year : 2008
Size : 91 x 91 cm
Acrylic On Canvas
Euphoria (Sold)Year : 2008
Size : 66 x 116 cm
Acrylic On Canvas
IlluminationYear : 2008
Size : 105 x 65 cm
Acrylic On Canvas
Interplay l, ll, lll (Sold)Year : 2008
Size : 55 x 55 cm each (Set of 3)
Magnetic Field (Sold)Year : 2008
Size : 122 x 91 cm
Acrylic On Canvas
Magnetism (Sold)Year : 2008
Size : 92 x 122 cm
Acrylic On Canvas
Radiation (Sold)Year : 2008
Size : 122 x 92 cm
Acrylic On Canvas
To The CoreYear : 2008
Size : 91 x 121 cm
Acrylic On Canvas
As quoted by the curator of the gallery on my 2nd solo :
Organic Origins, a solo exhibition of Acrylic works by Esther Reutens, one of Penang's own Artists, will be opened July 25th at a2 Gallery, 27 Bangkok Lane at 8pm.
Esther, born in Penang in 1952, is a self taught Artist (her artistic genes could have been inherited from her Art Teacher Father). Creatively talented but discouraged by negative opinions, she spent the last 25 years of her life in creative exile. A 10-month art course in USM in 1980 could have spurred her to continue working on and showing her works to a select few.
In June, 2007, she had a solo showing followed by a group show, "Deciphering the Body", at a2 Gallery, Penang.
Being female, and at her peak of creativity, Esther is still very much into experimentation and new subjects, something very few females artists of her genre seek to attempt.
"I do not follow trends or techniques, I wish to let the psyche of my environment lead me on. A ray of sunlight, the rainbow colours of oil on a puddle of water. All these inspire me to paint. There need not be a message or meaning to my work, only that it comes from my inner-self and the love of painting what I feel."
"My friends say that I am a simple yet complicated person!"
Esther paints with joyful intensity and constant movement. Working around her canvases, she lays down pure colours, that merge and separate to generate amazing perspectives. Her forms are strokes of layered colour over a contrasting background, creating depth through colour intensity.
"In my childhood, I preferred painting rather than playing with toys!"
The works featured are contemporary abstracts of organic origins. Mundane organic forms, not worthy of a second glance, take on a new lease of life on Esther's canvases. They aptly highlight this eagerness of hers to experiment and explore.
Colour, form & texture each vie for attention, bringing the compositions to life with a vibrancy that defies time.
Recognising the subject's origins is irrelevant. Appreciating the life injected into the mundane is inspiration enough!
As quoted by the curator of the gallery on my 2nd solo :
Organic Origins, a solo exhibition of Acrylic works by Esther Reutens, one of Penang's own Artists, will be opened July 25th at a2 Gallery, 27 Bangkok Lane at 8pm.
Esther, born in Penang in 1952, is a self taught Artist (her artistic genes could have been inherited from her Art Teacher Father). Creatively talented but discouraged by negative opinions, she spent the last 25 years of her life in creative exile. A 10-month art course in USM in 1980 could have spurred her to continue working on and showing her works to a select few.
In June, 2007, she had a solo showing followed by a group show, "Deciphering the Body", at a2 Gallery, Penang.
Being female, and at her peak of creativity, Esther is still very much into experimentation and new subjects, something very few females artists of her genre seek to attempt.
"I do not follow trends or techniques, I wish to let the psyche of my environment lead me on. A ray of sunlight, the rainbow colours of oil on a puddle of water. All these inspire me to paint. There need not be a message or meaning to my work, only that it comes from my inner-self and the love of painting what I feel."
"My friends say that I am a simple yet complicated person!"
Esther paints with joyful intensity and constant movement. Working around her canvases, she lays down pure colours, that merge and separate to generate amazing perspectives. Her forms are strokes of layered colour over a contrasting background, creating depth through colour intensity.
"In my childhood, I preferred painting rather than playing with toys!"
The works featured are contemporary abstracts of organic origins. Mundane organic forms, not worthy of a second glance, take on a new lease of life on Esther's canvases. They aptly highlight this eagerness of hers to experiment and explore.
Colour, form & texture each vie for attention, bringing the compositions to life with a vibrancy that defies time.
Recognising the subject's origins is irrelevant. Appreciating the life injected into the mundane is inspiration enough!
