Marie Le Lievre
Marie Le Lievre has MFA in painting from University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts (2009). Her work is represented by Bartley + Co Art, Wellington NZ and Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, NZ. She works as a full time artist in Lyttelton and exhibits regularly and at international art fairs.
Shared Lines: Aotearoa in Japan 2020
Drawings (Exchange 1) oil, acrylic & graphite on paper, 2020, 200 x 300 mm
Drawings (Exchange 2) oil, acrylic & graphite on paper, 2020, 200 x 300 mm
Barbiturates Series 2, Oil on Canvas, 255 x 255mm
"In Barbiturates, the candy-coloured shapes, or pills as the title suggests, appear almost burnt onto the canvas, its bitter sweet effect quite beguiling and tactile; ... with suggestion of both transfiguration and heaviness, are a cathartic rendering for the artist, the very mechanism of painting being her own poison of choice." Jennifer Hay