In this art TV show episode Doreen McNeill is interviewed with Colour In Your Life about painting, drawing, art workshops and art techniques.
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Fine Art TV Series - Colour In Your Life
Season - 11
Episode - 01
Filmed on Location at - Tauranga, New Zealand
As a young woman, Doreen McNeill was a technical draughtswomen, drawing navigational charts for aircraft. The work was meticulous and intricate. In the early 1960’s she began painting while living in the Bahamas. Since moving to New Zealand in 1987, Doreen has perfected her contemporary abstract techniques.
Doreen uses abstractions, grids and directions which are derived from her many years of hand drawing navigational charts for aircraft - before computers were in common use and aircraft were guided only by radio signals shown on distorted roller charts in the cockpit.
While not based on any particular geographical area, the underlying inspiration for Doreen’s art work comes from the basic elements representing nature. Doreen paints in acrylics and builds up layers of exquisite colour to give the painting depth and a vibrant sense of texture.
Doreen does not wish to ‘finish’ her paintings and considers art as a process that is begun by the artist and if successful, starts to live a life of it’s own. In her creative process she works on a painting until a time when she sees the painting as ‘something living’ - when the art begins to work for itself.
Now in her eighties, Doreen continues to paint with passion and gusto and is still exhibiting her work in galleries throughout New Zealand. In 2014, Doreen was a finalist in the Molly Morpeth Art Awards and was a winner at the Miles Art Awards - Friends of the Gallery Award.
Doreen McNeill has exhibited her work widely throughout New Zealand and overseas including Taiwan where she exhibited with Philip Trusttum and Phillippa Blair. Her work is in the permanent collections of the ASB Baypark Arena, Tauranga Hospital, and the Tauranga Art Gallery, where she had a public retrospective exhibition in 2010.
You can contact the artist about their art or art techniques directly via the website www.doreenmcneill.co.nz/
The Colour In Your Life TV series is an art show that takes you into the everyday studios of artists from around the world. While in the studio they share their individual techniques with the viewer in a relaxed atmosphere with a delightfully Australian host and fellow artist Graeme Stevenson. The series is currently filmed in Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
Colour In Your Life is an Australian produced TV art show and website www.colourinyourlife.com.au
Graeme Stevenson, a world renowned Artist himself, rides his Harley Davidson to the studios of Artists all over the world and allows the viewers a chance to go into the Art studios of some of the greatest Artists in the world.
A wonderfully engaging show that allows people to see inside the minds and the abilities of some of the most creative people in the world. If you love creativity and the shear joy of looking at the world through Art, then Colour In Your Life is the place too be.
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