CARL FOSTER WEST COAST
08 May - 08 June 2014 pierre peeters gallery 251 PARNELL ROAD HABITAT COURTYARD PARNELL +64 9 3774832 WWW.PPG.NET.NZ 251 PARNELL ROAD HABITAT COURTYARD PARNELL AUCKLAND +64 9 3774832 WWW.PPG.NET.NZ
CARL FOSTER b 1985 WEST COAST
There are different schools of thought on the extent to which an artist should ‘explain’ their work. Carl Foster might seem to be adhering to Matisse’s injunction to painters with his reticence to speak about his work; however this young painter is naturally reserved. Questions might make him bashful, yet one detects determination; a backbone and, that much overused word in the arts, passion. Foster is best known for his exquisitely modulated grey, green, blue and earth tones contained within immaculate and lyrical shapes which undulate, glide, swoop and fall. Foster listens to jazz and the blues. He loves the blues singer Robert Johnson. Music transports the listener; it excites, soothes, and speaks to the heart. In Foster’s painting, we see him go to a place imaginatively and with an acute sense of movement. The experience of the actual is transmuted into a vision that moves; in both senses of the word . Foster has been represented at Pierre Peeters since 2007 after attending Whitecliffe Art School.
1. O’Neills Beach, Bethells Oil on Canvas 540 x 450 mm
2. Veiw towards Orakei Oil on Canvas 460 x 460 mm
3. Bethells Beach Oil on Canvas 590 x 450 mm
4. Muriwai Beach Oil on Canvas 600 x 500 mm
5. Bethells Beach Oil on Canvas 600 x 490 mm
6. O’Neills Beach Oil on Canvas 490 x 400 mm
7. O’Neills Beach Oil on Canvas 540 x 490 mm
8. O’Neills Beach Oil on Canvas 470 x 440 mm
9. Muriwai, veiw of gannet colony Oil on Canvas 500 x 500 mm
10. O’Neills Beach Oil on Canvas 520 x 420 mm
11. O’Neills Beach Oil on Canvas 490 x 440 mm
12. View towards Herald Island Oil on Canvas 550 x 400 mm
13. Incoming Tide, Riverhead Oil on Canvas 640 x 490 mm
14. Bethells Beach Oil on Canvas 500 x 400 mm
15. O’Neills Beach Oil on Canvas 590 x 440 mm
16. Sea Horse Oil on Canvas 1010 x 760 mm
17. Tiki Oil on Canvas 1210 x 610 mm
18. Calypso Oil on Canvas 900 x 590 mm
19. Green Snake Oil on Canvas 1000 x 600 mm
20. Self Portrait Oil on Canvas 750 x 350 mm
21. Snake Oil on Canvas 910 x 610 mm
22. Yucca Plant Oil on Canvas 1010 x 760 mm
23. The white lady Oil on Canvas 1010 x 510 mm
24. Travelers Oil on Canvas 910 x 610 mm
25. The Travelers Oil on Canvas 760 x 500 mm
CARL FOSTER: WEST COAST 1. O’Neils Beach, Bethells
Oil on Canvas 540 x 5450 mm
$2,150
2. Veiw towards Orakei
Oil on Canvas 460 x 460 mm
$2,000
3. Bethells Beach
Oil on Canvas 590 x 450 mm
$2,100
4. Muriwai Beach
Oil on Canvas 600 x 500 mm
$2,250
5. Bethells Beach
Oil on Canvas 600 x 460 mm
$1,450
6. O’Neils Beach
Oil on Canvas 490 x 400 mm
$1,850
7. O’Neils Beach
Oil on Canvas 540 x 490 mm
$2,250
8. O’Neils Beach
Oil on Canvas 470 x 440 mm
$2,100
9. Muriwai, view of gannet colony Oil on Canvas 500 x 500 mm
$1,650
10. O’Neils Beach
Oil on Canvas 520 x 420 mm
$2,150
11. O’Neils Beach
Oil on Canvas 490 x 440 mm
$1,850
12. View toward Herald Island
Oil on Board 550 x 400 mm
$2,150
13. Incoming tide, Riverhead
Oil on Canvas 640 x 490 mm
$2,500
14. Bethells Beach
Oil on Board 500 x 400 mm
$1,100
15. O’Neils Beach
Oil on Canvas 590 x 440 mm
$1,600
16. Sea Horse
Oil on Canvas 1010 x 760 mm
$2,800
17. Tiki
Oil on Canvas 1210 x 610 mm
$2,600
18. Calypso
Oil on Canvas 900 x 590 mm
$2,800
19. Green Snake
Oil on Canvas 1000 x 600 mm
$3,000
20. Self Portrait
Oil on Canvas 750 x 350 mm
$2,600
21. Snake
Oil on Canvas 910 x 610 mm
$2,700
22. Yucca Plant
Oil on Canvas 1010 x 760 mm
$3,250
23. The white lady
Oil on Canvas 1010 x 510 mm
$2,500
24. Travelers
Oil on Canvas 910 x 610 mm
$2,450
25. The Travelers
Oil on Canvas 760 x 500 mm
$2,500
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