Nola Muller – Familiar Places
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Reviewing her first exhibition in 1978 for the Argus Eldred Green described Nola as ‘Hedonist (who) takes pleasure in her environment’. Expanding on his apt observation
Nola says: ‘My creative talent was fueled by being in the sea as a ‘Longboarder’ from the 1960’s. I learnt about the moods of a breaking wave. It was a fortunate lifestyle also hiking through our magnificent fynbos on the slopes of the Table Mountain National Park.
Observation translates into my interpretation of painting the elements, floral colours and dramatic structure of boulders and rocks.
Subjects that don’t require distortion but familiar rendering in both watercolours and oils.
If I pull up to the roadside on Chapmans Peak Pass, it is not because of a puncture, it is because I so often stop on my bicycle to observe the foamy pulse between the sea and the cliffs.
So it is in a full circle that I come back to painting ‘familiar places.'
Nola says: ‘My creative talent was fueled by being in the sea as a ‘Longboarder’ from the 1960’s. I learnt about the moods of a breaking wave. It was a fortunate lifestyle also hiking through our magnificent fynbos on the slopes of the Table Mountain National Park.
Observation translates into my interpretation of painting the elements, floral colours and dramatic structure of boulders and rocks.
Subjects that don’t require distortion but familiar rendering in both watercolours and oils.
If I pull up to the roadside on Chapmans Peak Pass, it is not because of a puncture, it is because I so often stop on my bicycle to observe the foamy pulse between the sea and the cliffs.
So it is in a full circle that I come back to painting ‘familiar places.'
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