It is a privilege and pleasure to show a collection of 18 pieces painted during the past 12 months at The Art Vault, Mildura. It is a wonderful gallery run by Julie and Kevin Chambers and the great staff there, who always make you welcome.
Artist's Statement
A
grower’s almanac is an annual publication that includes information about the
seasons, astronomical information and other tabular observations arranged
according to a calendar and planting dates.
This exhibition features selected works
depicting the diversity of life encountered over a cycle of seasons in our
irrigated gardens and horticultural areas, and in our surrounding arid bush.
In a world of supermarkets, and the demands
of modern workplace and technology, it can be easy for our intimate connection
with the earth and its seasons to become diminished, and find ourselves left
wondering about the passage of time.
When you take a flower and slowly look at
it for its own beauty or to represent it, it is the world and its bounty for
that period.
The subjects for this exhibition have been
chosen to represent the cardinal points of each season, culminating with spring
and its promise of renewal.
Included in this body of work are examples
of several systems of oil painting explored by the artist in recent workshops
and further studies of the techniques of the old masters.
These include the use of :-
· ‘alla prima’ –painting direct from nature
· the use of lean and rich palettes
· big form modelling as a method of underpainting
Each work has been painted in oils from
close observations of life, using sight- sized measurement to establish
proportions.
They hint of preparation towards some new
directions ahead that will encompass painting portraits and the human form.
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