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