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.