Trevor McNamara - Murray Prichard - Phillip McGillivray-Tory - Paintings | Mixed material assemblage - Friday 14 July - Saturday 5 August 2023

Dreaming with Eyes Open

These new series of paintings have all been created to each tell a story, with colours and texture playing an important role. It is up to the viewer to take their own journey from the title and what they see before them. No hidden meanings, just entertainment for the eyes and senses.

Liberties

At this time, I am enjoying the liberty of experimental painting of anything. I am deliberately avoiding having a clear idea of how to begin a painting or what the end result will be. I try to keep out of my own way and avoid over-thinking. Spontaneity, emotion, risk, accident, surprise, instinct, unpredictable mark and shape making…all play their part in keeping me engrossed and motivated. To me, non-figurative imagery possesses the most profound of feeling and meaning. In the end, the painting tells me what it is.

Mattise:  ‘Not narrative description but the presentation of emotion, expression and inner visions.’

John Hoyland:  ‘Paintings are not to be understood. They are there to be experienced. They are events.’

Observations of Country

‘The Australian landscape is what has always inspired my work, the colours, textures and flora. The natural and man made divisions of country, be they fence-lines or song-lines, indigenous or non indigenous, both seen and unseen. The use of a palette of hand stitched raw material, bound wire, stitching, shells, beads and stones, enable me to realise my assemblages’.