City Art is a conservation framing workshop and gallery offering a range of museum-standard picture framing and art care services to artists, art collectors, museums and galleries.

Michael Hamblett

Points of View - Paintings

“I try to avoid sentimentality and aspire to something other than merely picturesque. I often look to find interest in the ordinary – to make the ordinary interesting. Somewhere I came across the idea of the ‘hallucinatory power of the mundane’. For me much of the interest in painting is in manipulating the various elements to make a unified whole, however simple. As M. T. Woollaston said, each painting involves ‘a crisis and a resolution’. I think that in the making the painting becomes something else – and that what it is, what it becomes, is ultimately indescribable” – Michael Hamblett 2006

"SO MUCH OF EVERY ART IS AN EXPRESSION OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS, THAT IT SEEMS TO ME MOST OF ALL OF THE IMPORTANT QUALITIES ARE PUT THERE UNCONSCIOUSLY, AND LITTLE OF IMPORTANCE BY THE CONSCIOUS INTELLECT"– EDWARD HOPPER, U.S. PAINTER

Gallery:

Peter Adsett
Mark Braunias
Marcus Capes
Peter Carson
Stephen Clarke
Allen Cox
Michael Dell
Andrew Drummond
Guy Frederick
Michael Hamblett
Jeffrey Harris
Roger Hickin
Maree Horner
Kathryn Madill
Michael Reed
Zina Swanson
Philip Trusttum