Summer Voyage Critique by Jesus Estevez

Jesus Estevez is a valued client of Gallery ArtPlus. He frequents the gallery on a regular basis, and though he is a locally recognized artists, he has yet to display his work here at the gallery. Thus, we felt his overview of Summer Voyage would remain unbiased and true to the artwork. The critique has been organized by means of artist. Please read and enjoy:

Paulette Sauve

Paulette Sauve's oil paintings combined with mixed media offer us a semi-abstract world with scenes of docks, harbors and the Old Port of Montreal.

Paulette emphasizes the sky and the water by blending them with the boats and the buildings. She combines different materials like chicken wire and other woven textiles to create textures that will indicate in some cases the waves on the water, clouds and other textures on the lake.
Paulette uses simple lines and formal shapes to represent her boats and buildings, light pastel colours for the sky and dark tones of blue for the water.

Ships on Marshland by Paulette Sauve
Oil on Canvas; 18" x 24"

Bert Henderson

Bert Henderson's oil paintings show us details of everyday scenes of Newfoundland's coast. Bert's characters are caught up in their every day affairs, shopping, fishing or just playing around the ports and beaches of Newfoundland.
Bert uses oil paints in a very light way and in many places the preliminary drawing is showing through the oil overlay. His paintings are very colorful using the right values of light and shadow.
Bert captures the different colour combinations of traditional row houses, characteristic of Newfoundland. The characters in his paintings sometimes seem as if they are aware of the viewer looking into the viewer's eyes, whiel others are portrayed in an unselfconcious posture. It is an interesting way of portraying figures that helps catch the interest of the viewer.
One detail that Bert repeats in most of his paintings is the ocean on the horizon line between the mountains, once again characteristic of Newfoundland landscape, it gives a nice depth to the painting.

Bay Bulls II by Bert Henderson
Oil on Canvas; 15" x 30"

Ed Cronk

Ed Cronk is a water colour artists whose paintins show us very ordered images of boats, buildings and harbours. Cronk's style is realistic and his approach is very formal. He uses clean, straight lines with subtle and sober colours that depict a very modern attitude. In a way his work is very architectural.
Cronk places the elements in his compositions in such a way that give us the impression that each element occupied its own position without interfering with each other.
I would describe Cronk's paintings as formal, sover and modern. His style succeeds in conveying his subjects with a refined and well executed technique.

Lone Gull by Edward Cronk
Watercolour on Paper; 21" x 15"

Robert Blenderman

Robert Blenderman paints with oils depicting scenes of sailing using his unique approach which divides the sky, sail boats and the water in different ways. His use of different techniques with each subject element is his trademark in this show. For the sky and sails Blenderman does geometrical shapes in primary, strong colours that interact with each other creating other shapes with slightly different tonalities of colour.
For the water Blenderman uses splashes of many different colours (red, green, yellow and blue) with the intention of creating movement, waves and foam.

Red Reflections by Robert Blenderman
Oil on Canvas; 30" x 36"

Summer Voyage closes on September 26th. Please come visit Gallery ArtPlus to get a lasting impression of summer depicted through oil and watercolour.


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