Oil Painting Seascape Wonders on canvas that bring to life the wonders of light created in, around and through the mystic waves of the sea. Seascape oil paintings of artist Byron Pickering, master of paintingwaves. Music – Tim Janis used by permission. Light Within the Waters – wonders thought from www.PoetryCreek.com.
Duration : 0:2:48
Here is a lesson in oil painting techniques for clouds. Please toggle to full screen for maximum detail.
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Duration : 0:9:36
Zhong Chen Exhibition Podcast
Beijing Girl: August 4 – August 19, 2009
The Beijing Girl series considers the depiction of the female image in both contemporary and historical Chinese culture. The Girls series are often city or region specific, (the previous paintings were based on Guangzhou girls). In this show the new Beijing muse will be hung side by side with Zhongs other major subject the Australian landscape many of which have been Wynn Prize finalists, and acquired by Macquarie Bank and other important collections.
Both change and continuity are evident in this new work while Chens approach has evolved to bold, gestural canvases, beyond the pixel paintings that brought him his earliest recognition, he has continued to work in the portrait and landscape genres and to explore historical and contemporary aspects of Chinese culture
Duration : 0:2:38
Using a method of adding and subtracting from the first layer of color, this oil, which took an hour and thirty minutes, is condensed into a ten minute time-lapsed view of the process of painting. Listen closely and you’ll hear a thunderstorm in the background. Hope you enjoy it.
Duration : 0:10:2
October 17 – 23, 2009
Several works seek to recreate fleeting moments on station platforms or city parks, while broader emotive and psychological qualities are sought through the careful compositional arrangement of these recreations. Figures are carefully placed. A receding procession of umbrellas is used to carry the eye along a station platform in much the same way as a colony of pesky ibis across a field in Hyde Park. The horizontal lines of a station platform offer a subtle time-line metaphor for the transitory figures that appear along its breadth.
By portraying these everyday visions using a traditional art training, the artist constructs a dialogue between commonplace existence and artistry, where subtle ironies along with a reverence for the art of the past are explored. The iconic figures of mother and child or a figure exuding pre-Raphaelite beauty may appear on a station platform, for instance. Special care in the portrayal of atmosphere and time of day acknowledges the legacy of the impressionts, while the introspective possibilities offered by the tradition of portraiture are explored.
The artist seeks to draw on these lessons from the past in order to create a dynamic commentary on contemporary urban life.
Duration : 0:2:27
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The song is Gettysburg by Ratatat
Duration : 0:5:31
Mimesis: 27 June – 7 July 2009
Strampp contemplatively and evocatively uses the study of the horse and the landscape in her romantic imagery to explore the nuances of memory and personal mythologies. Conversely, Mimesis simultaneously represents a perhaps unprecedented shift in Strampp’s own aesthetic, as her previous style characterised by boldly coloured and intensely detailed works makes way to expanses of shadow and darkness, which instead render the subject and the landscape itself almost intangible. Mimesis, in it’s subtlety, allows the viewer to contemplate to what is not shown in the works, as layered repetitive shadows explore the experience of connection, as in The Messenger 2009, the subject seemingly hovers between reality and the imagined.
Duration : 0:1:46
Don Rankin New Paintings 2009: Dead Calm
Opening Saturday 11th July 3-5pm
Don Rankin brings a keen awareness of the historical achievements in painting to his work. He is intent on reuniting with tradition while taking modernism into account. As with his 2007 exhibition at Eva Breuer Art Dealer, this new series of paintings focuses on the genre of still-life but there is a new emphasis on flower paintings. The flower paintings use devices borrowed from the history of still-life painting, particularly the theme of the transience of life. However, Rankin is more subtle there are no skulls or clocks in his work. Instead, the flowers are often depicted as they near decay, retaining the essence of their former beauty even as they droop and contract, providing satisfaction and hope.
Duration : 0:2:11
Tony Irvig Exhibition Podcast
Other places, other views: September 12 – 25, 2009
Other places, other views draws on the local architecture of Irvings native Victoria, his extensive European travels and a love of the Old Masters. The large scale of works such as the monumental, Motel, forces the viewer to consider bland 1960s architecture in a new context along side similarly large paintings of European side streets. Siesta in Constantina is precisely executed, as are all the paintings; every detail is paid acute attention from the faded stripes of a pedestrian crossing to the cast iron arabesques of street lamp brackets. Shadows in Time is based on a street in Castlemaine Victoria but brings to mind the vast Venice panoramas of Canaletto.
Irving softens the seriousness of the size and detailed execution of these paintings with his characteristic humor placing a squashed Mcdonalds cup on the tarmac in Shadows in Time, a loan dog pacing the street during siesta in Bar Gregorio or a cat at the window of a down and out Motel in Motel.
Duration : 0:1:58
Tony Irvig Exhibition Podcast
Other places, other views: September 12 – 25, 2009
Other places, other views draws on the local architecture of Irvings native Victoria, his extensive European travels and a love of the Old Masters. The large scale of works such as the monumental, Motel, forces the viewer to consider bland 1960s architecture in a new context along side similarly large paintings of European side streets. Siesta in Constantina is precisely executed, as are all the paintings; every detail is paid acute attention from the faded stripes of a pedestrian crossing to the cast iron arabesques of street lamp brackets. Shadows in Time is based on a street in Castlemaine Victoria but brings to mind the vast Venice panoramas of Canaletto.
Irving softens the seriousness of the size and detailed execution of these paintings with his characteristic humor placing a squashed Mcdonalds cup on the tarmac in Shadows in Time, a loan dog pacing the street during siesta in Bar Gregorio or a cat at the window of a down and out Motel in Motel.
Duration : 0:1:58