Swirling colours come together on canvas in a new artist’s exhibition.
Debbie Van Ravenstein’s love for art has been reignited in her later years, and is proud to showcase her very first exhibition, ‘Pour Paint’ in the Sunbury Hume Global Learning Centre.
“I’ve always been into art, all my life, I just didn’t know how to start,” she said.
After learning the pouring technique through watching YouTube, Van Ravenstein decided to buy all the supplies and try it out herself.
“I like doing it, so I kept doing it, and the paintings just turned out the way they turned out,” she said.
Colours collide and melt together in her paintings, creating shapes and faces in the way the paint falls.
Using fluid, layered colours, she explores movement and emotion through her art and mindfulness.
While apprehensive at first, her occupational therapist helped convince her to take part, to which Van Ravenstein said she couldn’t have done it without her.
Going into the exhibition, Van Ravenstein didn’t think a single painting would sell. That became her goal, which she completely smashed by now selling four pieces of her collection.
“I never thought any would sell,” she said.
When the exhibition opened back in April, the opening night was one of her highlights, being one of the last to leave.
“To hear the mayor mention my name, and him wanting to meet me, I can’t believe that happened,” Van Ravenstein said.
Pour Paint’s run at the Sunbury Hume Global Learning Centre has now been extended to Sunday, October 5. Both other exhibitions have been extended at the gallery section as well until this date.
