Gaye Oakes Art

06/04/2026

News from Gaye's studio - https://mailchi.mp/087494f7a810/news-from-gayes-studio

25/09/2025

September 2025 -

Spending time at 3 large community art exhibitions in the past few weeks has revealed the importance of a good light source when displaying paintings.

13/09/2025

I was overjoyed to receive a Highly Commended award at the Art Society's Annual Exhibition at the Long Gallery last night. The sale of the painting was a further delight. Great for morale and inspiration. The painting is titled 'Elemental 1'.

09/09/2025

I have just placed Wind and waves collide 4 on Bluethumb. This work is ready for framing, double mounted on a painted premium plywood measuring 73cm W x 53cm H. I have really enjoyed creating these.

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20/08/2025

A lovely surprise this morning to see that my painting 'Wind waves collide 2' was chosen as a Staff Pick by Bluethumb. Thank you Bluethumb. This is one of a series of 4. I loved making them using oil and cold wax medium and no brushes just silicon scrapers. The layers are built up to show luminoscity in the water.

05/08/2025

August 2025 -

Until recently I‘ve had little trouble deciding if a painting or set is done, completing all the record keeping and moving on to the next set. Now I find myself procrastinating. It is that my stockpile is too large, am I losing my confidence, are there too many wotifs or is it simply that the pres...

02/07/2025

News from Gaye's studio -

For now I think I have exhausted my foray into compositional exercises discussed last month. For the first three I used a palette of Indian yellow, alizarin crimson and ultra marine blue, with a tiny touch of black. I feel these colours are more appealing. The first two #1092 and #1093 are 60x60 cm,...

09/06/2025

News from Gaye's studio -

In my last news I reported on my exploration of a process to develop compositions based on a Jenny Nelson short course. It was fun to do and I think I created 14, 30x30cm black and white compositional ideas. These began with random mark making on papers that were cut into rough squares, reassembled,...

24/05/2025

10/05/2025

My May 2025 newsletter is available if you are interested in seeing what is happening now in my studio.

After my recent foray into colour which I love, I am experimenting with a black and white exercise from Jenny Nelson, a US artist and teacher. I have followed Jenny for a while; she is a colourist and often uses muted colours. Some of these are not ones I would use; this green for example. But I lov...

07/05/2025

Just completed are four autumn inspired paintings featuring impressions of the Fagus — official name Nothofagus gunnii — is a compact alpine deciduous beech tree, believed to have been in Tasmania for 40 million years.
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