New Kaye Donachie

Kaye Donachie
From the compassion that was I, 2013
oil on canvas, 51 x 41 cm

New Kaye Donachie, Glenn Sorensen, Hiroshi Sugito

Galerie Zink

Advice from a Painter: Part 3 - Kaye Donachie

Kaye Donachie, "Myself I think shall never know, how far beneath the wave I go", oil on canvas, 61 x 45 cm – 24 x 17 3/4 inches, 2010

Kaye Donachie, "Without You", 2008, Oil on canvas, 27 3/4 x 23 7/8 inches

Kaye Donachie was kind enough to write a few lines of advice to new painters in my painting class, which I will also share with you;

"This is some advice given to me that I have always followed. 'equipment is very important before even starting a painting. Always use a glass palette, always use pure turpentine to dilute paint not the cheap cleaning turps.......it destroys the pigment. And always invest in good brushes.....( a tutor once told me that you would expect a surgeon to use blunt dirty tools, so a range of quality brushes cleaned every night is essential. Finally, I would say painting is really hard. When you first start out it seems easy and the better you get it the harder it seems.'”

Thanks Kaye!

New Work by Kaye Donachie

Serenely let us move to distant places, 2008, oil on canvas
42 x 30 cm - 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches

Donachie was one of my favorite discoveries last year:

Kaye Donachie, Echoes stir unsummoned, 2009, oil on canvas, 45 x 65 cm (approx 16 x 23 inches)

How colourfully each other self unwinds

Here are some beautiful mosly figurative paintings by Kaye Donachie. I love the mysterious qualities these images have and the dramatic titles that sound like lines from plays. They also remind me of the work of Luc Tuymans both in palette and in brushwork.

Kaye Donachie, "How colourfully each other self unwinds", 2005, oil on canvasKaye Donachie, "Your untold dreams I love to see", 2005, oil on canvasKaye Donachie, "During the days, we move along like frightened animals", 2005, oil on canvas Kaye Donachie, "Then between lust and tragedy and I know not what", 2006, oil on canvas, 18 1/8 x 12 1/4 in.

Luc Tuymans, "Der Diagnostiche Blick V", 1992
photo by zwigmar


Luc Tuymans,"Turtle", 2007 , Oil on canvas, 144.88 x 200.39 inches
photo by tee R tee