Jodie Dalgleish is a self-taught artist and curator and manager of Gallery Dalgleish in Wanganui. She is also a published author, and writer of art reviews and criticism. She has work in private collections throughout New Zealand and in Australia and America.
Jodie has completed a number of series of work in a range of media on paper, board and canvas. Her work explores the-sacred-in-paint and her quest for peace. Her paintings tend towards being figurative but they also enjoy the freedom of staining and mark making more typical of abstract work. She is interested in paintings as meditative and spiritual objects and has recently drawn on Japanese Haiku and Maori Legend and Waiata for inspiration.
Jodie’s recent Basho–Haiku series was a response to Basho’s Haiku:
Come, see real
flowers
of this painful world.
Dalgleish adapts her techniques and media to create the object that is in her mind at a certain point in time; her paintings become like markers, or signposts, in her own journey towards being at peace with herself. Her paintings acknowledge pain and they celebrate hope.