Lee Pennington ” Exhbition – “Never to old for Adventure”

For an artist approaching her 86th year, Lee Pennington shows no signs of slowing down.  Lee’s  exhibition  at Under the Greenwood Tree from March 1st  weaves imagery  from her latest adventures – moving house, setting up a new studio and visits to new locations into a series of vibrant still life’s and landscapes.    

Born in 1939 she studied art in the UK  during  the 1950’s before moving to Australia in  1955. Lee  has painted all her life, however time spent as a driver for  the Navy, travelling outback Australlia, being the proprietor of a motel in Dubbo and even  owning a Mining claim in Lightning Ridge and managing a gallery   are just a few of the adventures she has also  fitted into her life.  . 

Her name will be familiar to  avid followers of Australian art from the   1970’s to the late  1990’s when she exhibited extensively throughout  Australia.  Her work is held across a range of private and public collections including the Gold Coast City Art Gallery ( now HOTA) and the Tweed River Regional Gallery.   She has won multiple awards including the Gold  Coast City Art Prize in 1986 and in 2020 she  was a finalist in the Australian War Memorial Prize.  Her work was included in the exhibition “A Homage to Women Artists” at the Gold Coast City Art Gallery in 1988.

Although continuing to paint in the intervening years, choosing to lockdown through the last few Covid years, Lee returned to painting with a vengeance.   Her style is uniquely her own, for Lee  the subject she starts with rapidly changes as she gets lost in the paint, working intuitively and freely with blocks of colour and pattern.

Lee will be at her exhibition opening on Saturday March 1st from 3pm  All welcome.