Patricia Van Lubeck

Ravi Shankar

2011-04-07T02:09:00.000-07:00

A while ago Ravi Shankar, one of America's finest younger poets, asked me permission to use one of my paintings for his book cover. This morning I found the result in my mailbox.

Ravi Shankar on Wikipedia

Calendar

2010-09-30T03:43:00.000-07:00

Ok, I know ... September is just finished,
but the new calendar of 2011 is launched.

I can't take my eyes off of you

2010-09-18T21:55:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas 80 x 40 cm.
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Luxembourg

2010-08-05T19:38:00.000-07:00

At this moment in Luxembourg there is an exhibition of different painters and photographers from all over the world, representing the event called 'Eutopia' in the beautiful 'Centre Culturel de Rencontre'.
There you can see two of my giclées. Click HERE for the location and opening hours.

Write it down in your diary!

2010-07-31T01:33:00.000-07:00

The paintings WITH THE INSECTS in the previous blogs are traveling to Melbourne this month. From the 1th of September ten of my paintings will be shown at 27 Gipps Street in Richmond. Maybe some of you know this spot as the former gallery of Christine Abrahams.
The other exhibitors are Graeme Stevenson, Ross Wilsmore and Shane Gehlert.

Preview: Tuesday 31 August (by appointment)

Open: Wednesday 1 September (Exhibition hours Tue-Sun 11-6pm)
7pm Seminar – Building an art collection
RSVP please to www.mcgees-gallery.com.au or 0404 806 166

Official opening: Thursday 2 September, Drinks 6-8pm
Guest Speaker: Anthony Breslin

* Fri 3th Sep JOIN US FOR DINNER
Meet our interstate artists and enjoy what promises to be a fun evening of dining, artistic conversation and good wines.
Venue: Kanzaman Restaurant, 458 Bridge Rd, Richmond. Cost: $60 perhead all inclusive (banquet and alcohol). RSVP please to www.mcgeesgallery.com.au or 0404 806 166

Artist talks: Saturday/Sunday 4/5 September
12 noon Shane Gehlert
2pm Graeme Stevenson

Afternoon delight

2010-07-30T04:42:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas 80 x 40 cm.
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It started with a kiss

2010-07-21T21:04:00.001-07:00

Oil on canvas 20 x 16 inch (76 x 51 cm).
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Another one bites the dust

2010-07-19T18:26:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas 20 x 16 inch (76 x 51 cm).
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Beds are burning

2010-07-15T03:19:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas 80 x 40 cm.
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Italia meets New Zealand

2010-06-16T17:28:00.000-07:00

A while ago I got a request of Silvano Braido to exchange a small work, something like a drawing. For some inimitable reason I'm always grabbing the large canvasses and hardly create small drawings these days. The only serious small work I owned was Wildervangsterdallen. It was a personal favorite of me, made with acrylic and ink and it was ever used as illustration for a song.
So, the choice for Silvano was quite limited, but luckily he was still willing to do the exchange.
Today I received his part in my letterbox and I was over the moon. Beside a beautiful bright tempera work, he also added a book brimmed full of other small paintings of weird animals in marvellous colors.

Visit the site of Silvano Braido, you will be surprised!

Portugal

2010-05-26T01:08:00.000-07:00

At this moment in Coimbra in Portugal there is a big exhibition with all kind of surrealistic paintings. Different artist from all over the world representing this event called 'Surrealism Now' in the beautiful Bissaya Barreto museum house.
There is also one work of my works. You can click HERE for a better image and a detail.

The cloud picker II

2010-04-13T05:52:00.000-07:00

In the meanwhile the exhibition in Wellington is over.
There was quite a controversy about one of the entrants because his work was a portrait of a murderer.

Anyway ... I didn't win a prize, but I was one of the leading four in the People's Choice, so that was a good result for me.
The next thing is that my Cloud Picker will get a grand tour thru New Zealand.

New Zealand portrait gallery, Wellington 24 February-11 April 2010
Lopdell House, Titirangi, Auckland. 15 April-6 June 2010
Percy Thompson Gallery, Stratford 13 Aug-12 Sept 2010
Hawke’s Bay Exhibition Centre, Hastings 20 Sept-28 Nov 2010
Millenium Gallery, Blenheim 30 Nov-30 Jan 2011
Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore Feb 2011- to be confirmed

A TooHot painting

2010-03-02T18:59:00.000-08:00

The organisator of the PAL design contest asked me to create a painting as a tribute to this fun event.
The features had to be: a sunny atmosphere, a link to New Zealand or kiwi's and a kind of 'Lubeck-style'.

This is how the painting turned out:

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Volcano land is finished

2010-01-15T18:25:00.000-08:00

Click on the last one.

Wooden shoes

2009-12-10T00:45:00.000-08:00

Lindsey Cochran written A BLOG about the wooden shoes I created in the Netherlands.

And HERE is an article in the NEW YORK OPTIMIST !!!

Exploding of pride

2009-11-20T23:58:00.000-08:00

I was laying under the mailbox like a dog, for weeks now. Finally I got it today!!!
The latest cd of CUNNIN'LYNGUISTS. A Los Angeles based hip hop group who chose MY painting for their cd cover !!!
For a 40+ white female this is probably as close as I can get to the hip hop scene.
I know it's better to keep it a dirty secret (I never show it in public), but coincidentally for the last 10 years 90% of my downloads were hip hops. And believe me ... because of the music!!! Yes really, I never lie :-) My first language is Dutch, so if I don't make any effort to concentrate, I usually have no idea what they are singing. I purely love the music ;-)
But given this uberly special occasion I studied the lyrics ... Cunning'Lynguists!
I'm blown away ...

The cloud picker I

2009-11-06T19:22:00.000-08:00

At least 6 years ago I started to create this painting of a man picking clouds out of the sky. On and off the unfinished painting was sitting against the wall for long periods.
A while ago I read about a portraiture contest and that was the big stick to finally finish the painting.

CLICK ON THE IMAGES!

Lubeck trees in real life

2009-09-07T02:24:00.001-07:00

Normally; first there is my painting ... and then Mother Earth imitates me with a pale shadow of my natural treasures.
That's how it happens all the time! Being a painter is a case of self-confidence, isn't it?

Somewhere in Spain, Mother Nature has been ahead of me.
I created the painting named 'September' a long time ago, in the year 2001.
But ... last year I saw some amazing pictures of a couple of trees in Madrid. I discovered them on the site of Flora Wigleven.
I couldn't deny that these trees must have started their lives long, long before (!) the canvas of September was even woven ...

Aren't they beautiful? Maybe a re-decoration of the earth has already started.

Pieces of scrap paper for every painting in progress

2009-09-02T05:58:00.000-07:00

There are always about 4 or 5 works in progress hanging in my house, in different dry condition. I add one layer of paint and then it needs to dry before I add the next layer or refine the details. Btw: layers are not always covering a whole painting from corner to corner.
If one of them is sitting on my easel again, I always have difficulties to re-connect with the painting in question. Sometimes they have been in rest for weeks and sometimes even for months. But every time it seems I need hours or days before I know how to work further on it, like an interrupted conversation. Most of the times my first attempts are quite pointless too.

To prevent this 'stumbling', I always write down a kind of start-up for the next reunion. To all of my paintings there belongs a little scrap paper with the receipt of the most important color mixes of that painting. Also the state of oiliness of the medium of the last applied layer is important to know. And than the start-up. That can be something like: "Next time start with a darker glaze for the shadow sides of the barks. Or "start to pink the horizon".
It maybe sound like silly reminders, but the moments they came up I'm in the best conceivable work flow to just that particular painting. In those flows I know exactly what the best order of layers or details is. The only problem are the huge interruptions.
I found out the written start-ups helped me a lot to restart. They quickly pull me back into the painting.
I LURRRV to-do lists.

Another one finished

2009-08-27T23:35:00.000-07:00

For a larger image you can visit: www.vanlubeck.com

New painting

2009-08-19T02:53:00.000-07:00

For more details you can visit: www.vanlubeck.com

A gang of dissin' fish

2009-08-13T17:12:00.000-07:00

While Frank and I moved to New Zealand 4 years ago now, he still does some odd jobs for the Dutch SPCA (Dierenbescherming). They asked him to create a logo for the discouragement of angling.
I once made an acrylic painting with two gangs of 'dissin' fish'. We looked if there was one of them appropriate for logo.
Here is the result. Try to find the lucky one ...

An outer space forest

2009-08-10T02:31:00.000-07:00

Inspiration can come from anything!
This afternoon I found a miniature landscape in my garden. Close up it was a bunch of clear, almost glassy stems with a more than yellow bulb at the top. The bulbs of the longest stems were coloured to bronze. It seems like a beautiful little forest on one of the planets far away from here ...

Please click on the pictures for the full effect:

From close-up stepping back into the earthy dirt, I discovered it was just a turd ...
Made by one of my roommates. As seen by the fungoid state it must have been done light-years ago.

Lexicon

2009-08-03T01:43:00.001-07:00

Austrian art curator Gerhard Habarta has worked 6 years to create an overview of artist with surreal, visionary, symbolic and fantasy elements in their works. This overview is published in an international encyclopedia 'Lexicon der Phantastischen Kunstler'.

I still need to get used to the fact that these days my name is classified under the V of Van Lubeck ... In the Netherlands so many surnames starting with VAN exist, that Dutchmen don't include that part of the name in alphabetic orders.
Until a few years ago I always have been a L. The L of Lucky to may be part of this Lexicon

If you are interested to purchase the book, or if you have questions, you can ask Gerhard Habarta: shop.lexikon@gmx.net

There! Me! Lower right!

Children's drawings from the seventies

2009-07-31T03:21:00.000-07:00

When I was scanning some old pictures, I saw this photo of my Mum, with a familiar looking drawing pinned to the wall. Not because I was the kid who created this drawing, but because I knew I still had this particular drawing somewhere in the few boxes I lug with me through my life.
The painting turned out to be 39 years old. In the corner was written 'Patricia 5 years old'.
Would Rembrand be a mediocre drawer too when he was 5 years old? Hehehe ... certainly! ;-)
Maybe the only unusual aspect I already had in my younger years could be the preference for non-blue skies.
One year later details start appearing; A chandelier which -looking at the back bulbs- attempted me to make a kind of perspective. A bracket for the hanging painting and a kind of anchor above the front door.
And although a perspectively correct opening fence was probably beyond me, I found a good lock important enough to draw.