two artists

two australian artists with a capacity to paint the beautiful mundane with sensitivity and charm. For some artists it's not what you paint but how you paint it that holds the mystique. Dane Lovett's watercolours are deliciously unformed in one sense - the puddles of colour bearly holding together in the most delicate fashion. like a thought in form. love.

Victoria Reichelt... that's some tidy, fresh painting. Crisp vs old school - works for me. Victoria is also a finalist in this years Sulman Prize at the AGNSW... her painting is actually hanging next to mine (thanks to this years artist judge Imants Tillers) - good company.

parallel world by ji lee

the artists own statement says it best...  People fill the floor of their homes with furniture and walls with paintings and pictures. So why are the ceilings left empty? Decorating ceilings was a celebrated art form in the past centuries that somehow got lost through the reductionism of modernism. People don't look at the ceiling anymore. It's a dead space. So I wanted to bring a small wink to this space. I also liked the idea that somehow there's a parallel world which coexists with ours.

i hear you

an artist looking at the fragile relationship between humanity and the natural world. Kate MacDowell speaks volumes.