This exhibition of Landscape Oil Paintings opened at the Queen Street Gallery in Woollahra, Sydney on 25 February 2014.

1 - Unfamiliar Territory

Oil on canvas 1219 x 914mm (48 x 36 inch)

2 - Yellow Reverie

Oil on canvas 1219 x 914mm (48 x 36 inch)

$4,600


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3 - Equilibrium

Oil on canvas 1219 x 914mm (48 x 36 inch)

$4,600


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4 - In Time I Recall

Oil on canvas 1219 x 914mm (48 x 36 inch)

$4,600

5 - Back Paddocks

Oil on canvas 914 x 660mm (36 x 26 inch)

$2,600


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6 - Ground Swell

Oil on canvas 914 x 660mm (36 x 26 inch)

$2,600


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7 - Ruahine Drift

Oil on canvas 914 x 660mm (36 x 26 inch)

$2,600

8 - Thought Lines

Oil on canvas 914 x 660mm (36 x 26 inch)

$2,600

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9 - Spiccato Hills in Seven-Eight

Oil on canvas 660 x 660mm (26 x 26 inch)

$1,200

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Paintings 9 and 11 have matching hills from the same drawing.

11 - Arrival

Oil on canvas 660 x 660mm (26 x 26 inch)

$1,200

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10 - Spiccato Hills in Six-Eight

Oil on canvas 660 x 660mm (26 x 26 inch)

$1,200

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Paintings 10 and 12 have matching hills from the same drawing.

12 - Beyond the Blue Pines 2

Oil on canvas 660 x 660mm (26 x 26 inch)

$1,200

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13 - Looking Down at Emerald Bay

Oil on canvas 660 x 660mm (26 x 26 inch)

$1,200

14 - Beyond the Blue Pines

Oil on canvas 660 x 660mm (26 x 26 inch)

$1,200

15 - Road Trip 1

Oil on canvas 200 x 200mm (8 x 8 inch)

$450

16 - Road Trip 2

Oil on canvas 200 x 200mm (8 x 8 inch)

$450

17 - Road Trip 3

Oil on canvas 200 x 200mm (8 x 8 inch)

$450

18 - Road Trip 4

Oil on canvas 200 x 200mm (8 x 8 inch)

$450

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19 - Road Trip 5

Oil on canvas 200 x 200mm (8 x 8 inch)

$450

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20 - Road Trip 6

Oil on canvas 200 x 200mm (8 x 8 inch)

$450

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Exhibition

The show ran from Tuesday 25 February 2014 for two weeks through to 9 March at Queen Street Gallery, 28 Queen Street Woollahra NSW Australia.

Sheona, Chicka and Guy
Sheona White, Head of Public Programs, AGNSW opened the exhibition and the respected Gadigal elder, Charles ‘Chicka’ Madden conducted the Welcome to Country.

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crowd outside art exhibition opening

The Works

The works have a strong feeling of place, capturing moments in time on the land – or in the mind. Gestural sweeps of impasto cloud and mist are spread above the skumbled folds of viridian hills and the deep blue shadows of trees. They attempt to strike a balance between the depth of representational landscape painting and the two-dimensional surface of abstract paint on canvas. The landscape is at once reduced to an essential, minimal surface and yet draws the eye in, to mist-covered hills and valleys.

 

Beyond that artful play between representation and abstraction, there is another geological layer in these works, a contemplation of place, of nostalgia, perhaps a journey and a sense that just over that next viridian hill could be the destination.

 

The oil on canvas works range in size with the largest being on 4×3 foot (1219x914m) stretchers. They have multiple layers of oil paint laid down over time in glazes like geological layers.

Links

Each painting has a link to its own permanent web page underneath the image. Comments are open on those pages so you are welcome to login in and start a conversation about a particular work – kind of old-school, pre-facebook, blogging style, enjoy.

Crowd viewing artworks at gallery

Shop

Numerous paintings were sold at the exhibition but the remaining works are available in the online shop. The shop is set up for both Australian and international payments and shipping.
The crowd at the opening of Guy Chapman's 2014 landscape exhibition

Paint

I use Michael Harding oil paints and during this exhibition I was lucky enough to have a visit from the man himself.