Landscapes 2014

This exhibition of Landscape Oil Paintings opened at the Queen Street Gallery in Woollahra, Sydney on 25 February 2014. Sheona White, Head of Public Programs, AGNSW opened the exhibition and the respected Gadigal elder, Charles ‘Chicka’ Madden conducted the Welcome to Country.

1 – Unfamiliar Territory

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

This work is available for sale via the online shop.

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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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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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

This work is available for sale via the online shop.

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 2012 Australia

Details

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.