Joint Art Exhibition - Judy Curnow & Niels Meyer-Westfeld

We invite you and your guests to join us to celebrate the opening of a new artist, Judy Curnow with her amazing floral landscape paintings and Niels Meyer-Westfeld's incredible bird drawings in a joint exhibition.

Date: Tuesday 08 August 2023
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Venue: ArtSelect Gallery, 19A Osborne Street, Newmarket
Please RSVP by clicking on the button below to confirm numbers.

Judy Curnow
Judy is predominantly a self-taught painter and started formal lessons with oil paint when she was just 12 years old.

Meeting Tim Wilson, one of New Zealand's most acclaimed landscape artists, in 2009 changed her life. After viewing Judy's work Tim offered to mentor her and take her work to another level.

The amazing years spent with Tim enabled Judy's paintings to get to the level where they featured in his own exclusive gallery in Queenstown. As the value of Judy's paintings increased, so has her global profile and her work has become highly sought after in New Zealand and abroad.

Judy's style is impressionism, bordering fauvism, enhancing the colours and tones of the natural world. Painting mainly landscapes Judy finds this genre invigorating and reaches into the core of her imagination as an artist. She is fascinated with light and its constantly changing effects.

Painting full time from her studio in Akaroa, Judy draws inspiration from her surroundings. In her studio, Judy translates these observations from her life and selects her subjects with an eye attuned to their shape, colour, pattern and texture. She instinctively places these into balanced arrangements that reveal her renowned ability as a colourist and her confident eye for design.

Within her detailed paintings Judy wishes her work to give the viewer a sense of happiness and wellbeing, beauty and abundance as our world needs so much more of that.

One could say that her paintings are expressions of visual pleasure; the pleasure she has experienced in making the work and the pleasure it gives the viewer.

Judy Curnow's artist page:
https://www.artselect.gallery/judy-curnow


Niels Meyer-Westfeld
Niels Meyer-Westfeld moved to New Zealand from Germany where he had a career as a graphic artist and part time landscape artist. But once he met our birds, he couldn't stop drawing them, which led to an exhibition and a related book.

Drawing birds takes patience. To really get a sense of their behaviour, you can't just draw from a photograph, you've got to spend time watching.

"My father is a passionate lepidopterist and growing up in Germany, I was lucky to accompany him on trips around Europe while he pursued his interest." says Niels. "His love of nature inspired me artistically and I've always drawn the fauna and flora that surrounds me."

Niels creative career has been a rich one. Trained in communication design in London, he worked for global brands like The Body Shop, MTV, Hilton Hotels and Dr Martens.

Then he fell in love with kiwi fashion designer, Deborah Sweeny, which brought him to the rich natural environment of New Zealand.

All original artworks by Niels Meyer-Westfeld are available as a limited-edition fine art giclee print.

Niels Meyer-Westfeld artist page:
https://www.artselect.gallery/niels-meyer-westfeld-1

Contact me, Ngaire, on info@artselect.gallery to register your interest to purchase any of these works of art before the opening.

We look forward to seeing you and your guests at the opening reception and during the exhibition