Robert Habel – Landscape Artist – SA

Robert Habel is a leading Adelaide, South Australia based artist. You can find out more about robert and his work here at his website

Here is a statement by the artist:

“Inspiration comes from experiencing a diverse range of environments, and an interest around how people interact with these places.

I was born in Launceston in Northern Tasmania and began art school there in 1982. My early art school paintings featured landscape subjects and were painted on site amongst the variety of environments that are within easy access to Launceston.

Working outdoors sets up a range of challenges, which are still the cornerstone to my art practise. I bring to each of these works some of the experiences of working outdoors such as changing weather conditions, variations in light, interference of outside elements, interpretation of scale, and often, personal discomfort.

mid north salt plains 1

mid north dry paddocks 6

a day painting at the bungle bungles

Matthew Johnson – Melbourne based painter

Matthew Johnson is a Melbourne based painter.

His represented by the Christine Abrahams Gallery and there is a detailed interview with the artist available here

Looming (formosus)

Coastal View

Matthew Johnson’s paintings alert us to the physical presence of thousands of colours that vibrate across his optical environments. Often starting with a single colour, he mixes a vast palette in various shades so that colour permeates the surface of these paintings. Each painting is a ‘wet on wet’ process allowing for colours to gently merge and blend across the frenetic picture plane. Sometimes, circles are inscribed later, hovering on top of an abstracted grid. Foreground and background unite in a dazzling array of pulsating shades.

Artist of the Week – Sally McDonald – Painter

Sally McDonald is a Sydney based Painter. She is represented by the Moda Rouge Gallery

Here is a little more about her and some of here amazing work.

Local Muse

Coil

Sally McDonald – Harbour Afternoon

Sally McDonald started to paint at the age of 32 in February 2004.

As an adult mother and wife, she was searching for a personal balance, an emotional outlet of expression. Choosing the vehicle of abstract expressionism enables her to express emotively her inner responses to her environment. A highly visual child, she was obsessed by colour, form, shape and the thrill of manipulating these elements through drawing and painting. She was constantly ‘scribbling’ and leaving her mark on surfaces throughout her home environment.

Upcoming Exhibtion at the Taksu Gallery Singapore

Opening on the 20th of September will be this premier exhibtion of Australian glass art featuring a number of leading artists including Richard Whiteley, Edols Eliot and Matthew Curtis.

For information about he exhibtion check out www.taksu.com

Edols Elliott - Yellow Bud