Ogle Gallery

Read about our upcoming and current exhibitions in our Main Building's Ogle Gallery - visit and sit down with a cup of coffee from the Cafe! 


Tony Ogle - Selected Works

Friday 15 March 2024 - Friday 29 March 2024

Lake House Arts is pleased to present:


Tony Ogle
Selected Works - 1996 - 2023

Friday 15th March - Friday 29th March 

Ogle Gallery


Opening celebration: Friday 15th March, 4pm

 

For over three decades, I’ve been creating paintings that represent my connection to the landscape.  New Zealand’s coastline is the source of my artistic inspiration along with ocean activities that provide ongoing wellbeing in my life. 

The coastal margin where sea and land collide is a meeting place of elemental forces that create a unique geology as well as providing shelter and nourishment for generations through time. 

My connection to this margin has captivated me since my early years growing up in Castor Bay in the ‘60s and ‘70s, and I feel grateful to be able to express through my art, the lifestyle, impressions and feelings it evokes in me. 

Upon returning to NZ in 1991 after a long OE, I decided to resume my art practice and initially worked from a studio between Belmont and Devonport.  In 1994 I left there to join friends living at the Lake House when it was still located near Takapuna beach.  I lived and worked from the House for two years and was involved in its relocation to Fred Thomas Drive. 

Since then I have lived away from Auckland and now, in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition in my city gallery, I am returning to the Lake House to show a selection of screenprints and paintings covering off the intervening years. It is very exciting to be back showing my artwork in the House where so many good memories reside and to help celebrate its ongoing successful transition into a community art hub.