C Costley Art

C Costley Art Carolyn Costley works from a light-filled studio in Blenheim New Zealand.

She creates expressive paintings inspired by the environment. “My soul is colour!” This page showcases her joyful art.

prompted portrait painting this week. I tried the subject in four different styles. Good exercise. This is “Elizabeth...
07/06/2026

prompted portrait painting this week. I tried the subject in four different styles. Good exercise. This is “Elizabeth”.

My work from plein air painting workshop with Min Kim in the Awatere Valley. Most of these have been “Minified”.
25/05/2026

My work from plein air painting workshop with Min Kim in the Awatere Valley.
Most of these have been “Minified”.

“The Sun Always Rises Again” won a Merit Award at Marlborough Art Society’s Autumn Members’ Exhibition.
15/05/2026

“The Sun Always Rises Again” won a Merit Award at Marlborough Art Society’s Autumn Members’ Exhibition.

My painting, “The sun always rises again”, won a merit award at tonight’s opening of the Marlborough Art Society’s Autum...
15/05/2026

My painting, “The sun always rises again”, won a merit award at tonight’s opening of the Marlborough Art Society’s Autumn Members’ Exhibition. ❤️

My latest creation in its many stages. “Crisis? What Crisis?”Happily created in with and friends.
04/05/2026

My latest creation in its many stages. “Crisis? What Crisis?”

Happily created in with and friends.

20/04/2026

I really like this perspective, too. “Art” is a verb, not a noun.

Duchamp helps us understand that “art” shouldn’t be thought of as a noun that picks out certain kinds of objects, but as a verb: We “art” absolutely any object at all by using it to trigger thoughts and conversation. — Blake Gopnik, NYT

20/04/2026

I’ve been reading about a DuChamp exhibition at MoMA and philosophizing about “art”. Here’s a food-for-thought quote from an article in NYT by Blake Gopnik:

DUCHAMP GOT AT SOMETHING vital about Western culture over the previous 400 years: that an object didn’t count as “art” because of its beauty, its subject matter or its greatness, but because of how it asked us to use it. When functioning as art, an object asks its viewers to “look harder, look longer, ask questions, interrogate, try to make something of it,” in the words of Alva Noë, a philosopher at the University of California, Berkeley.

While manning the reception desk at Marlborough Art Society, I worked on my small painting on paper.
11/04/2026

While manning the reception desk at Marlborough Art Society, I worked on my small painting on paper.

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