Welcome to Arcadia, a space for my fine art commentary on the local art scene in New Zealand, Australia and beyond. I am an artist from New Zealand currently living in Auckland. Some of my works can be viewed online at www.celeste.nz
Arcadia: A region of ancient Greece in the Peloponnesus. Its inhabitants, relatively isolated from the rest of the known civilized world, proverbially lived a simple, pastoral life.
A few years ago I exhibited some paintings under the title "Arcadia." They were large abstracts of different hues with fine lines of metallic leaf embedded, forming vague structures and connections. I wanted to evoke a sense of another realm, an "Arcadian" space. It also seemed appropriate to reference ancient Greece given the influence of classicism in various forms throughout art history.
In this realm, the blog which only exists in cyberspace, like the Aracadia of the imagination, the focus is simple - art in it's many and varied forms.
Arcadia: A region of ancient Greece in the Peloponnesus. Its inhabitants, relatively isolated from the rest of the known civilized world, proverbially lived a simple, pastoral life.
A few years ago I exhibited some paintings under the title "Arcadia." They were large abstracts of different hues with fine lines of metallic leaf embedded, forming vague structures and connections. I wanted to evoke a sense of another realm, an "Arcadian" space. It also seemed appropriate to reference ancient Greece given the influence of classicism in various forms throughout art history.
In this realm, the blog which only exists in cyberspace, like the Aracadia of the imagination, the focus is simple - art in it's many and varied forms.
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