Dear good people,

Thank you to those for coming out on a cold rainy evening a few weeks ago to come view my new work. To catch up with you is always a pleasure. A fun and relaxed time was had and some artworks found new homes see below those paintings and prints now residing with their new owners.

Queen of the Sea, framed enamel on

glass painting

Monets Pond Revisited,

cyanotype print on watercolour paper

If Venus Fell In Love With Mars, giclée print, signed, title

& dated (more available)

Thank you to all of you for continued support in reading my newsletters. I hope you continue to enjoy my updates! Below are some of the art works from the show. If you would like to pop to the studio to take a look, have a cuppa then please do get in contact (07900 683972 or ninagarstang@hotmail.co.uk). The statement for my new work below with my inspirations can be found at the bottom of this email.

Breaking Apart, cyanotype fluid on

coated paper, 42 cm x 60 cm framed £170



Listen, oil on panel, 51cm x 76 cm £750

No Words, cyanotype on watercolour paper, 42cm x 29.7cm framed £85

Washing Over, enamel paint on oil paint paper, 32cm x 32cm framed £120

The Sea With In II, oil on canvas, 61cm x 46 cm £450

Deep Inside, oil on canvas, 40cm x 30cm £185

Breathe Out, cyanotype on watercolour paper, 42cm x 29.7cm framed £85

InnSaeii, oil on canvas, 90cm x 70cm, £900

Contained, 15cm x 10cm emamel paint in epoxy resin £120

Current Exhibition

I have a painting in a show at the Lake Gallery, Southwark Park Galleries in London, SE16 2UA so if you happen to be in the area please do pop along. It runs until 9th December Wed- Sun 11-4pm.

This piece called The Sea With In I, oil on canvas 61cm x 46cm is on show there. Its on top row at the back.

Coming Up

I have another event coming up at Phoenix Art Space, the weekend of the 9th & 10th December for the Press + Play Festival of Print. You will find me amongst others in the main gallery for their tabletop print sale (details above). I will be showing and selling some new cyanotype prints which are part of my new body of work based around emotional connection to the sea, its inhabitants and the feel of light in water when you are submerged in it. There will also be an opportunity to see and purchase my framed and unframed giclée prints of my largest lit glass paintings which are just as vibrant and luminous as the glass work.

Your mailing list discount of 25 % discount still applies to these giclée prints. VIP25%OFF

Quote this at the fair or if you can't make it you can still purchase online:

Print Shop

I have a plan to add another dimension to a select few of these giclée's...more to be revealed in the next newsletter but I will say is that I will have a number of these embellished prints at the print festival at Phoenix Art Space on the 9th & 10th December. So do pop along to feast your eyes at the event for affordable and unique art....perfect for Christmas pressies as there is something to fit every budget!

All the very best & love to you

Nina

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Context of my new art works

These new paintings are spawned by my love of the sea and our environment. 

Our relationship with the sea is an important one. It is heart-breaking to watch the damage being done and to its inhabitants. The coral reefs are being decimated by temperature rises and the delicate ecology of the sea being destabilised on every level with overuse. 

In an article Enric Sala a conservationist and Explorer-in-Residence with the National Geographic, sets out his goals to help protect critical marine ecosystems worldwide, and to develop new business models for marine conservation.* Feeling some elation of this glimmer of hope, there is something that strikes me in the interview and it is quite simple ... we can change this is if we become emotionally invested in the sea, that we really feel the plight. We can see what is happening to our environment on the land with the naked eye and feel the presence of the increasingly worrying weather changes but unless we delve beneath the surface of the sea or choose to watch or read information about the marine ecosystem, we can be oblivious to the devastation being wrought. 

With these paintings I am conveying my feeling of being submerged in the sea and with the light through water in its many forms. My emotional connection and sensations of the mercurial mutability of water. When I am in the sea I feel part of it not apart from it. The ancient Icelandic word for intuition is InnSaei also meaning “the sea within” which is the borderless nature of our inner world, feelings and imagination beyond words and a constantly moving world of vision. 

I am an observer of light in water. My earliest vivid memories were of watching light moving through water and being totally mesmerised. Hence I’ve been pointing my camera at light in water since my arrival in Brighton 20 years ago. Photographs are my mental notes a source material for my paintings but by using the *cyanotype process it has made the source material artworks in their own right. 

*Cyanotypes are made with exposure of negatives on chemically treated paper to the sun and then developed by washing in water so this was a fitting medium for me to work in using light and water to create them. 

*There is a real chance that with the constant and valiant efforts of people and organisations such as Enric Sala & Pristine Seas to try to secure 30% of non-fished, non-dumping and non-tourism areas of the sea to create national parks by 2030 so that life and balance can be restored to the seas, everyone can make their livings and the sea can absorb our carbon.