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Talulah-Belle Lautrec Nunes: Impastoed Richness
SummaryTalulah-Belle Lautrec Nunes is a professional full-time artist and part-time art teacher.She has a diploma of art and creativity and her paintings are exhibited in numerous galleries throughout the North Island from Auckland down to Wellington. 
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Talulah Belle paints in her studio gallery in the bush near Ōtānewainuku Mountain at Ōropi where she lives with her three teenage children and husband Keith.
Among the many regular visitors to her exotically located studio is a kune kune pig named Hatty and a very stubborn donkey named Bella.
“The pig licks up dropped paint and the donkey has taken to eating the foam out of my favourite chair,” she says.
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Talulah Belle describes herself as an expressionist artist.
Bush with Stream.
The painting 'Bush with Stream' is part of a series of paintings inspired by walks near her home. An expressionist palette of turquoise, pinks and greens capture and accentuate the luxuriant colours to be found locally. Talulah Belle's favourite colours blue/gum and yellow/green dominate the composition bringing a fresh vibrancy to much loved scenes in this very personal series of paintings.
I have enjoyed the impastoed richness, the way the colours meld together when applied to the canvas with the palette knife in Talulah Belle's paintings for many years.
The outcomes are very distinctive, have become increasingly recognisable and have wide appeal not only in Tauranga but throughout the country.
Talulah Belle is one of a number of our local artists forging a national reputation.
Talulah Belle's Ōropi gallery/studio and tea-rooms are open weekends on demand. Private painting lessons for two or more hours are available with Talulah Belle in her studio and she also teaches small groups. In addition to this Talulah Belle teaches painting at Harrisons Gallery in Tauranga. To find out more email her on talulah@ihug.co.nz
by Pete Morris (2011).
Pete Morris is an occasional painter and an art-lover. He is a freelance writer with a particular interest in promoting the visual arts in Tauranga.
This page archvied at Perma CC in November of 2016: https://perma.cc/AB82-JDSQ
Main BodyTalulah Belle paints in her studio gallery in the bush near Ōtānewainuku Mountain at Ōropi where she lives with her three teenage children and husband Keith.
Among the many regular visitors to her exotically located studio is a kune kune pig named Hatty and a very stubborn donkey named Bella.
“The pig licks up dropped paint and the donkey has taken to eating the foam out of my favourite chair,” she says.
Original articles contained an image here
Talulah-Belle with Hatty and Bella.
Talulah Belle describes herself as an expressionist artist.
- “I use a palette of pure un-naturalistic colours, bold lines, and the palette knife to create landscape and still-life images."
“The paint is applied like butter, creating texture and the unexpected much-loved mistake."
“My portraits are done with brush and have evolved from simplistic to the more realistic. Just another phase I'm going through."
“I often use my daughters and myself as models."
“My paintings are constantly evolving and changing which means if you own a Talulah Belle you can still see others that are completely different."
“The surrounding native bush has been the inspiration for my latest landscape paintings, usually of sun-dappled walking tracks, jostling ferns, awe-inspiring rimu, and tōtara."
“I use a variety of vases, flowers, and fruit for my still-life compositions which I photograph and pin onto the wall in my studio for inspiration.”
Bush with Stream.
The painting 'Bush with Stream' is part of a series of paintings inspired by walks near her home. An expressionist palette of turquoise, pinks and greens capture and accentuate the luxuriant colours to be found locally. Talulah Belle's favourite colours blue/gum and yellow/green dominate the composition bringing a fresh vibrancy to much loved scenes in this very personal series of paintings.
I have enjoyed the impastoed richness, the way the colours meld together when applied to the canvas with the palette knife in Talulah Belle's paintings for many years.
The outcomes are very distinctive, have become increasingly recognisable and have wide appeal not only in Tauranga but throughout the country.
Talulah Belle is one of a number of our local artists forging a national reputation.
Talulah Belle's Ōropi gallery/studio and tea-rooms are open weekends on demand. Private painting lessons for two or more hours are available with Talulah Belle in her studio and she also teaches small groups. In addition to this Talulah Belle teaches painting at Harrisons Gallery in Tauranga. To find out more email her on talulah@ihug.co.nz
by Pete Morris (2011).
Pete Morris is an occasional painter and an art-lover. He is a freelance writer with a particular interest in promoting the visual arts in Tauranga.
This page archvied at Perma CC in November of 2016: https://perma.cc/AB82-JDSQ
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Pete Morris, Talulah-Belle Lautrec Nunes: Impastoed Richness. Pae Korokī, accessed 13/10/2024, https://paekoroki.tauranga.govt.nz/nodes/view/6165
