Eternal love

Aviary, Nicole Page-Smith, 2014

For the love of divine pairs of birds chosen by God for their eternal pairing, one mate is all they ever have. Therefore, if one should die, of usually natural causes, the other never finds another pairing. Eternally lonely they may be but eternally satisfied they found eternal love unto God. The combined pairing of two love birds on a brough has to be human for I love you in bird speak or the divine language of the angels. The second Melbourne experience of a solo exhibition for Nicole Page-Smith, was in 1993. This was an exhibition of the divine pairing of glass and steel. This combination would only have ever been useful for the interior structure of churches, almost flying buttresses akin to those of the Notre Dame in Paris, France, for Nicole Page-Smith. Somewhere fortunately and a rare experience for Nicole Page-Smith, was something serious that was taught in the latter years of her high school. The only serious job that was ever communicated that Nicole Page-Smith, could ever succeed at was a job in an architects office. Art was thought of as being a socially degenerate occupation so the careers officer adviser had to bend the rules to accommodate Nicole Page-Smith's need. The offenses that were tossed her way about wanting to pursue a career in art would make anyone want to go up to God to speak to the angels for a good twenty years anywhere on earth. Drawing was somewhere Nicole Page-Smith, succeeded at from the early days of preschool, this was her expression of freedom. Eternal love will prevail and so will the will of God. God bless the angels

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Unconscious objective

Aviary, Nicole Page-Smith, 2014

For Nicole Page-Smith, early experiences of nature in Australia, included swallows at the beach. These ascended her mind to Christ via the swallow, darting in and amongst the cliff faces. Although drawing in her early years was always a past time, the study of nature continued through books. This took her hovering via hummingbirds wings as if angels visited her home. A further exploration of the unconscious objective of nature took Nicole Page-Smith to abstraction by the language of angels. This was the basis of her early wooden sculptures, first exhibited in Melbourne in 1990, where a divine passage was common and a pathway to stardust. The angelic wings of birds have the same effect on Nicole Page-Smith, taking her up higher, through the tree tops, up to the angels.

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Donatello

Jeffrey and Nicole also had a really lovely time in Venice. The Venice Biennale was on view. There was also a lot of churches worth visiting. Nicole Page-Smith managed to catch up with the St. John the Baptist by Donatello for the first time. Despite the commercialization, if you know what you are looking for, Venice has an array of great restaurants and several of these divan offerings unto God were attended by the Harris Smith Art team.

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Verdi

Our trips to Munich are always an incredible experience. The last time Jeffrey Harris and Nicole Page-Smith travelled there, their life was met with the music star Jonas Kaufmann. The opera performance of Il Trovatore was a melodrama from somewhere else. All the operas, the Harris Smith Art duo have been to at this venue they have enjoyed. Munich is one of their favorite places to view art, also. The Alte Pinakothek is one of their most famous places to visit for painting.

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Pathway

The Harris Smith encounter with Frankfurt was fruitful. Both Jeffrey Harris and Nicole Page-Smith enjoyed the Philip Guston exhibition. This was an artist both exhibited alongside in early Melbourne dealer representation. The exhibition in Frankfurt was a great joy. Several large canvases were on display both from New York and private ownership. Although most US citizens would probably disagree, the Guston subject matter does seem more in line with early Modernism and what would have been exhibited during his lifetime. The pathway to his exhibition has been a really full journey for the Harris Smith team and placement with Philip Guston has made Jeffrey and Nicole feel really honored.

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Philosophy

Thank the dear Lord that the Harris Smith team were blessed with going on our last overseas trip. This was due to the success of the co-director Jeffrey Harris having a really beautiful last commercial exhibition here in Dunedin. And thank-you kindly to the current public program for celebrating their return to native soil with the reintroduction of an early masterpiece of Jeffrey Harris. This is nicely placed with the philosophy of some Renaissance paintings of the mother and child image from early distribution of the Royal ascension to public museums. This early ascension may have come from the Royal Trust as they seem to be the main holders of Renaissance images. There is however, also a magic ascension of Raphael drawings in the museum archive library at Oxford University. This would also be owned by the crown. Something like crown land. Most London house museums are also on crown land but through observation, the only places other than Oxford who house Renaissance artworks are the National Gallery and Royal Collection. I am not sure how museums were placed in the early part of the 1900's however, I am imagining most of the Tate team who premise may have set these big museums up would be Oxford University educated.

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