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Bernie Kirkham - Fragments Collection
Bernie has recently embraced a bold new direction with abstraction. As she explains, “I don't usually paint abstract art … I have really enjoyed exploring this new idea. I particularly like the textured, looser style I have used here. …
This exploration culminates in Fragments, her current abstract exhibition at ArtSelect Gallery in Newmarket.
In these new works, layers of past imagery peek through expressive textures, inviting the viewer to uncover hidden narratives and feel the energy of transformation.
What began as a boundary‑pushing experiment has blossomed into a powerful artistic statement—raw, textural, and open to interpretation. The Fragments collection reflects the artist's exploration of fragmentation and transformation.
Fragments marks a milestone in Bernie’s creative evolution, where imaginative storytelling meets abstract expression—and the result is a beautifully layered invitation into her artistic world.
Bernie Kirkham
Fragments Collection - Upcoming Exhibition
Golden Fragments in the Sand
Soft organic forms evoke a sense of the quiet erosion of sand and ancient landscapes.
Gentle washes of colour suggest natural movement - like water shaping rock or wind over earth.
Embedded throughout the work are delicate touches of gold leaf. Glinting like hidden treasures or sunlit fragments. Subtle textures and tonal shifts whisper of stories just beneath the surface.
Size: 1520 mm wide by 920 mm high
Medium: Acrylic, Multi Media and Gold Leaf on Canvas
Price: $6200
Status: Available
Baroque Garden
“Baroque Garden” captures a fleeting moment in nature where form, shadow, and memory converge. With its intricate interplay of light and dark, this abstract work evokes a sense of wandering through a garden at dusk—where flowers blur into foliage, and the air feels thick with scent and silence. It reflects the artist’s exploration of fragmentation and transformation, key themes in the 'Fragments' series.
Size: 1520 mm wide by 920 mm high
Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
Price: $5900
Status: Available
Misty Autumn Fragments
Rich in texture and organic movement. This piece features a layered palette of earthy tones creating a sense of depth and fluidity.Sculptural texture gives the surface a dynamic three dimensional quality that invites a closer inspection.
Size: 1220 mm wide by 920 mm high
Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
Price: $4700
Status: Available
Fragments 2
Capturing the quiet poetry of an autumn garden. Scattered fragments of decaying leaves and faded foliage drift across a deep velvety background as if suspended in time. Each torn weathered shape becomes a relic of a bloom once vivid, of a moment passed.The darkness that weaves through the works feels both grounding and infinite, like soil, shadow,or the hush before winter.
Size: 920 mm wide by 1520 mm high
Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
Price: $5600
Status: Available
Fragments of Green
Dominated by olive greens, ochres, dusky pinks, and golden tones, the work features overlapping circular and fan-like shapes, creating a sense of movement and fragmentation. The forms seem to rotate and break apart, suggesting both mechanical motion and botanical structures—like leaves, petals, or weathered wood.
The textures—some scraped, others swept—contribute to the sensation that something has been unearthed or reassembled.
Size: 920 mm wide by 1520 mm high
Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
Price: $5500
Status: Available
Breaking Free
This powerful abstract painting marks a pivotal turning point—My first venture into abstraction and the beginning of a bold, expressive new direction. It radiates a sense of emotional release, The composition feels raw and visceral. There's a sense of struggle and motion, a shedding of structure, and the emergence of a more intuitive, energetic visual language.
Size: 920 mm wide by 1520 mm high
Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
Price: $5600
Status: Available
Fragments of Autumn 1
Capturing the quiet poetry of an autumn garden. Scattered fragments of decaying leaves and faded foliage drift across a deep velvety background as if suspended in time. Each torn weathered shape becomes a relic of a bloom once vivid, of a moment passed. The darkness that weaves through the works feels both grounding and infinite, like soil, shadow or the hush before winter.
Size: 920 mm wide by 1520 mm high
Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
Price: $5600
Status: Available
Fragments in the Sand at Low Tide
Inspired by the beaches of Waiheke the surface feels both weathered and fluid, like layers of shoreline history exposed momentarily before being reshaped again with the next tide. This piece speaks to the way nature, like a memory, is made of moments - washed away, revealed again, never exactly the same.
Size: 1520 mm wide by 920 mm high
Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
Price: $5500
Status: Available
Beach Fragments 2
A marine inspired painting captures the fluid motion and layered beauty of the ocean. Waves of colour swirl together creating a dreamlike underwater landscape. Soft transitions of colour and form evoke the push and pull of tides, the shifting sea floor and the fleeting shimmer of light beneath the surface.
Size: 1220 mm wide by 920 mm high
Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
Price: $4600
Status: Available
Memories - Echoes in Haze
Exploring how memories feel - some sharp others faded and hard to hold onto. Small pops of orange and black suggest brief vivid moments that stand out in our minds.Thin, drifting lines hint at shapes and thoughts that never fully form, like trying to remember something just out of reach.
Size: 1220 mm wide by 920 mm high
Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
Price: $4600
Status: Available
Beach Fragments
What Remains. This atmospheric abstract painting soft, swirling forms evoking weathered rock, sand and drifting clouds. The surface appears marbled, almost ancient, as if nature itself has painted it—through wind, water, and decay. The painting holds a dreamlike quality, inviting contemplation and interpretation. There’s a strong sense of dissolution and emergence, as though forms are trying to materialize or disappear, where pieces of memory, self, or landscape remain only partially intact.
Size: 1520 mm wide by 920 mm high
Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
Price: $5600
Status: Available
Summer's Day Fragments
Capturing the vivid energy and hazy intensity of a hot summers day. The bright colours suggest the scorching sun and heatwaves rising from the ground. Deeper patches of midnight blue introduce a sense of shade or distant water, while delicate lines ripple through the composition like mirages or drifting clouds.Both vibrant and dreamlike, full of movement, warmth, and the suspended stillness of summer.
Size: 1220 mm wide by 920 mm high
Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
Price: $4600
Status: Available
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