Nature's Patterns
Australia from the air

Paintings exhibited during Castlemaine State Festival, 1 - 10 April 2011

Rosemary McKenry uses colour to depict the feelings she experiences in particular environments, and detailed shapes to symbolise the geography of a landscape. She uses a stain painting technique which requires multiple layers of transparent acrylic paint on untreated canvas. 

Rosemary and her partner Bruce Mitchell travel extensively in outback Australia. Photographs, especially those taken from the air, inspire her paintings. This exhibition features her series of paintings based on the inundation of the Channel Country and Lake Eyre during 2010, as well as her depictions of other spectacular parts of Australia.

 

Tanami Saltpans
(84 x 84 cm, acrylic on untreated canvas, 2010)


Natural patterns appear unexpectedly. As Rosemary and Bruce drove south towards the MacDonnell Ranges they noticed these large saltpans. Fingers of salt seemed to be reaching out for the rocks on the range.

Other paintings in her exhibition included her impressions of the flooding around Lake Eyre, stylised maps and landscapes based on patterns in nature. 

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 Worth a look: Photos by Bruce MItchell

© Rosemary McKenry 2006-2011