'Celestial Animal' - Sharon Dawes Celestial Animal will be the fourth solo exhibition by Sharon Dawes, whose beautifully rendered paintings of animals continue to be highly sought after. Celestial Animal explores the systems ancient man used to understand and recognise the night sky.  Many images of animals were imprinted onto the star patterns and these formed the basis for the figures of myth, as well as a means of finding a way about the sky and charting the movement of astrological bodies.   The subject has fascinated Dawes for a long time, as she has an avid interest in animals and astrology and in particular star signs.  The animals are rendered in what Dawes describes as 'paint specificity'; where paint is used in such a way that it describes something of the animal, beyond its superficial appearance. This technique of painting has won over many people in the genre of animal painting so do get in early to secure one of these mesmerising and covetable new paintings!

'Aquarius (The Water Carrier)' mixed media on canvas 2011, 200 x 120cm	'Aries (The Ram)' mixed media on canvas 2011, 120 x 120cm	'Cancer (The Crab)' oil on canvas 2011, 30 x 30cm
'Capricornus (The Sea Goat)' mixed media on canvas 2011, 120 x 120cm $2500.00	'Equuleus (The Little Horse)' mixed media on canvas 2011, 200 x 95 (x2) $4800.00	'Leo (The Lion)' mixed media on canvas 2011, 140 x 150cm $3000.00
'Libra (The Scales)' mixed media on canvas 2011, 200 x 135cm (x 2) $6300.00	'Perseus' oil on canvas 2011, 15 x 15cm	'Pisces (The Fishes)' mixed media on canvas 2011, 80 x 80cm $1600.00
'Scorpius (The Scorpion)' mixed media on canvas 2011, 30 x 30cm	'Taurus (The Bull)' oil on canvas 2011, 160 x 125, 160 x 105cm $4500.00	'Telescopium (The Telescope)' oil on canvas 2011, 200 x 85cm x 2
Castor (Gemini - The Twins) oil on canvas 2011, 100 x 100cm	Pollux (Gemini - The Twins) oil on canvas 2011, 100 x 100cm	Virgo (The Virgin) oil on canvas 2011, 70 x 70cm