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Rhapsodies on Blue

            Here are three works that go well together. Each contemporary in their own way. We'll look at them from the left.

Craig Waddell (NSW)
"Wild Shores of Love"
Oil on linen
170 x 120 cms

This painting takes the picturesque location of Cape Grim in Tasmania's northwest and gives it an abstracted feel. The artist describes his method this way:
"Opposed to a pictorial likeness I vigorously apply paint, pushing, pulling and scraping it around the surface to find a deeper meaning within the painting. I love the physical act of almost wrestling with paint and canvas, applying paint in an explosive way in order to try and capture some of the feelings and power that I first felt when arriving at Cape Grim."

Steven Alderton (NSW)
"Little Blue Lake"
Pigmented inks and acrylic on canvas
172 x 190 cms

I will post a photo of the actual "Little Blue Lake" near Mt Cameron in Tasmania's northeast below - there you will see the realistic colour of the water in a lake caused by the flooded remains of tin mine digging, and the reaction of the acidic minerals that have leached into the water from decomposing granite and the white kaolin clay. But this is what the artist has to say:
"I painted Little Blue Lake in Tasmania as it is a vivid, bejeweling colour that lights up the landscape. It was once untouched nature, then it was turned into a mine, now turned back into nature through repatriation. The beauty is extraordinary, it is natural and unnatural, sublime in its beauty and alchemic in its colour."

Robyn Harman (TAS)
"Monolith 3"
Oil and acrylic on canvas
160 x 105 cms

"This sea stack near Waterfall Bay has the presence of a spiritual site existing in the liminal space between land and sea, between sea and sky. As I view the towering sea stack I imagine myself sailing in close proximity, weaving closer to the monolith while a GPS signal follows my trail. What would it feel like? Where would the wake of my sailboard appear as I cut through the water? Digital and painterly images may have more permanence than this monolith, entering the age of the Anthropocene."


   

Taken on: March 7, 2021

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Rhapsodies on Blue

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Camera: Nikon D850, f/4.0, 1/200 sec, 22mm, ISO 800 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D850
Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	0.005 sec (1/200)
Focal Length:	22mm
ISO:	800
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	Low gain up
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Capture One 20 Windows
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