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Gallery artist Karl Maughan shares his thoughts with Joelle Thomson in the current May edition of MiNDFOOD Magazine. When asked about the origins of his subject matter, Maughan states, "I always painted what was around me, and my mother was really interested in gardening. She's a landscape architect and her use of gardens and her own garden at home made it seem incredibly natural to paint gardens."
26.04.08 I Karl Maughan in Artworld Magazine
Karl Maughan is interviewed by Jane Somerville in the April/May edition of ARTWORLD Magazine. Karl talks about his recent foray into printmaking. "I wanted to make the prints like I make a painting, but I realised it's a very different medium, it's much more methodical...it's a real collaboration..." Karl's latest prints are available from the gallery.
A mid career retrospective of one New Zealand's most recognised artists Karl Maughan, has recently opened at Palmerston North's Te Manawa Art Gallery. Curated by Nicola Jennings, the exhibition's location is particularly poignant - the area being Maughan's home-town.
Jennings writes:
Maughan’s dedication to his subject has not prevented development in his work... Having worked through the immersive views of rampant gardens that characterise his early work, Maughan stepped back in the mid 1990s to view the wider landscape. The sense of barely contained chaos that pervaded his early work has been supplanted by a sense of order emanating from carefully manicured lawns and shaped shrubbery. And while Maughan still paints on a large scale, the viewer is no longer thrust into the garden in quite the same way. In works of the last few years the foreground is again often dominated, now by Maughan’s characteristic rhododendron bushes full of flower, yet glimpses of sky and distant landscape are still evident.
Essay: A Clear Day, Nicola Jennings, 2007
Karl Maughan: A Clear Day
10 November 2007 - 30 March 2008
Te Manawa, 326 Main Street, Palmerston north
