{"id":995,"date":"2026-10-04T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T00:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sarahguppy.co.nz\/website\/?page_id=995"},"modified":"2026-10-21T13:12:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T01:12:38","slug":"inner-garden-exhibition-tim-melville-gallery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sarahguppy.co.nz\/website\/inner-garden-exhibition-tim-melville-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Inner Garden exhibition Tim Melville Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inner Garden<\/h1>

paintings by Sarah Guppy<\/h2>

Tim Melville Gallery, 4 Winchester Street, Grey Lynn, Auckland
Opening<\/strong>: Wednesday 14 October 5:30 PM
Artist talk<\/strong>: Saturday 17 October 11 AM<\/p>

Tim Melville Gallery Website<\/a><\/em><\/p>

Embarking - a boat pushing off from shore is never sure of how each day will unfold and so it is creating paintings. Process - from the Latin Processus meaning a journey forward. As a lover of analogy and metaphor the opportunity to express my \u2018inner garden\u2019 has grown into an exploration of text as a vehicle for paint blended with experience and memory. As well as poems and letters by creatives I admire, I have found travel has inspired homage to places and people in Morocco, Egypt, England and New Zealand.<\/p>

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Inner Garden Ghost - Homage to seeds<\/div>
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View Full Catalogue<\/a><\/p>

I was interested to see that Sarah had Maggi Hambling as a teacher. These are two quotes from Maggi that go up on my workshop wall from time to time.<\/p>

\u201cLett Haines told me \u2018you must make your work your best friend that you can go to it whatever you\u2019re feeling. You\u2019re feeling tired, you\u2019re feeling bored, you\u2019re feeling happy, you\u2019re feeling miserable, you\u2019re feeling randy. You\u2019re feeling what ever you\u2019re feeling. And you go to your work and you have a conversation with it. And that\u2019s how I\u2019ve lived my life.\"<\/em><\/p>

\"Restless curiosity. 'Experiment, experiment, experiment. Everything has to be an experiment otherwise it\u2019s dead\"<\/em>.\u00a0 - Maggi Hambling<\/p>

I take the emphasis on the word experiment as a reminder to work with an intelligent and relentless curiosity. For me that subsumes any reference to 'talent', inspiration' and 'creativity'.<\/p>

I love Sarah's use of colour and how it reflects Frances Hodgkins, but is very much her own.<\/p>

And there's a beautiful sense of otherworldiness in the works. In the content and the way colour is used. So many layers. Rich and cohesively complex.<\/p>

By Chris Mules<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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