Penelope Sai is an Australian artist who describes her work as ‘mostly landscapes pushing to abstraction’. Working in mixed media, her paintings reflect her love of the landscape’s changing moods in light and colour. Her background is in music and she has enjoyed a successful career in the jazz world internationally, with 5 album releases to date. On canvas, Penelope’s work captures an energy and vibrancy which, like in jazz, comes from her spontaneity and love of improvisation.
This exhibition, ’Un Lent Adieu’, was inspired by her 2024 summer sejour in and around her 500 year old cottage in Burgundy, France. Lavender and iris are in full bloom, sunflower and canola fields a momentary joy. These paintings have been captured quickly, inviting the observer to look deeper, tempting one to step a little closer, gaze a little longer, before the sun shifts, shadows move and the brief magic moves on.
This is Penny’s first exhibition at The Garden and we hope the first of many. Don’t miss seeing these works in person. On display from Thursday the 9th of January until Wednesday the 5th of February. All pieces are available for purchase.
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