LIBBY MCCOLL
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“I try very hard to bring life to my artworks. They feel alive. You are not just looking at the artwork, you feel like you could be there. I use a lot of texture and try to give my paintings movement by being spontaneous with there creation. Not too much drawing up and fiddling! They’re not static. This is evolving more and some of my work is heading to a more abstract feel, but still keeping the realism prominent.”
- Libby McColl”Born and raised in Auckland, Libby McColl has always held a deep respect and love for rural New Zealand. The New Zealand countryside is the inspiration for her warm emotive paintings. McColl is mainly self taught, with a background in Graphic Design, she has been painting professionally since 2004. She chooses to paint in the acrylic medium because it’s spontaneity and versatility suits her rustic, realistic style.
Her artworks evoke a sense of nostalgia for times gone by. Lichen covered fence posts, abandoned old houses, farm buildings, rust, moss and stormy skies. McColl’s paintings often magnify the smaller, often overlooked details of these subjects, observing how nature over time repossesses them again and makes her own art.
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Libby McColl Last Drop of Sun 152 x 76cm $7,500
Libby McColl Frost on Jack’s Pass Road 100 x 150cm $9,200
Libby McColl Forgotten Place 152 x 76cm $7,500
Libby McColl Sitting Quietly 76 x 136cm $6,300
Libby McColl Ominous 153 x 90cm $8,200
Libby McColl Ram Raid 153 x 76cm $8,200
Libby McColl Main Road 137 x 102cm $8,200
