Artist Name: AMANDA PENROSE HART

Artwork Title: TO SWIM IN DEEP COLD EMPTINESS

Medium: Oil on linen

Size: 100 x 180cm

Artist Name: ANTHONY QUIDONG

Artwork Title: WELLINGTON POINT- AFTER LOCKDOWN

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 100 x 150cm

Artist Statement:

The glow of the Wellington Point sunset was a great welcome from Covid lockdown leaving long shadowy memories.

Judge’s Comment:

Shades of Turner, but a nice broody painting of the power of the landscape and state of mind.

Artist Name: KRIS CUSH

Artwork Title: HOME

Medium: acrylic

Size: 60 x 60cm

About the Artist:

Embracing the essence of organic abstraction, my work reflects my love of nature. Working intuitively, with acrylic and oil, I explore the idea of perception vs. reality within the textured and organic shapes found in our landscape. Random and illusive pattern found in nature is by far my greatest inspiration.

Artist Statement:

This piece uses transparent, translucent and opaque acrylic layers to build depth and texture. So much of Tasmania, my birthplace, is undiscovered. The unique and mystical essence of this land can be felt in my artwork, ‘Tasmania, Home of the Drop Bear’.

Artist Name: JANE GREALY

Artwork Title: DOG PARK NIGHT

Medium: watercolour on paper

Size: 65 x 48cm

About the Artist:

Grealy has enjoyed a successful career as an architectural illustrator since 1979, her work based on observation of both existing and imagined buildings, landscapes and spaces. Although her transition to the art world came much later, Grealy's architectural training has allowed her to hone technical skills in perspective and art media.

Artist Statement:

Much of the time, dog park is empty of people. Tall trees and birdsong conceal the fact that the park lies within a highly urbanised inner-city suburb. I often wonder what happens at night. A half-caught glimpse, rather than an observation, of a dog and its owner.

Artist Name: CHRIS HUBER

Artwork Title: AERIAL MEANDER GLASSHOUSE MOUNTAINS

Medium: oil

Size: 100 x 120cm

About the Artist:

Soaring high from a Birdseye view. Watching the clouds drifting and casting shadows on the valley floor below, constantly changing the patterns and mood of the atmospheric drama unfolding before me.

Artist Name: SYBIL CURTIS

Artwork Title: KURDIMURKA KATI THANDA

Medium: oil on linen

Size: 125 x 125cm

About the Artist:

Sybil Curtis uses industrial structures as the basis of her paintings. Although they look realistic they are carefully constructed and composed to create a poetic image. Curtis believes that if a painting does not work at the abstract level it does not work at all. She has won the Tattersall's landscape Prize three times and is represented in the Queensland Art Gallery and many other public galleries.

Artist Statement:

Kurdimurka Kati Thanda is based on the water tank and desalination tower that once serviced the original Ghan Railway near Marree. The salt lake of Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre) shimmers in the background.

Artist Name: KATHY ELLEM

Artwork Title: THE GOLD OF FLEECE

Medium: oil

Size: 92 x 152cm

About the Artist:

I want to create works that leave people feeling up-lifted and connected to life on the land. Being totally immersed in the creative process for 14 years I’ve gone from crafting to owning my own gallery, exhibiting and teaching across Australia and internationally.

Artist Statement:

The stage was set by the shearing shed as the back drop, such a big rectangular shape with the sheep illuminated by the setting sun. The challenge I set myself was to cast a spotlight on the central sheep and use as much texture, loose brush and knife work to indicate rather than state the sheep, the texture of the wool, grass timber and metal, the whole thing almost felt like a dream.

Judge’s Comment:

Lovely light.

Artist Name: DAVE GROOM

Artwork Title: WATERFALLS LATE SUMMER

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 165 x 145cm

About the Artist:

My work is primarily about the landscape in which I live and work - the mountains that surround me on the edge of Lamington National Park. Living in the landscape enables me to closely observe the changing environment. I try to portray the essence of the landscape, rather than a literal interpretation of it.

Artist Statement:

This painting was done towards the end of summer this year, after we had received plenty of much needed rain. It celebrates the beauty and immensity of nature.

Artist Name: NANCY CRAMOND

Artwork Title: YOU SMOTHER ME....REQUIEM FOR A LANDSCAPE

Medium: oil wash, wax medium, pencil and crayon on marine ply

Size: 92 x 81cm

Artist Statement:

Fire top right cresting the hill.
Smoke descending.
Sun still shining from behind left
of the viewer.

This began as ' Mist on the Hawkesbury River' but morphed with the catastrophic 2019/20 fires.

I hear the trees
suffocating
under smoke
under us.
We are oppressive
to the landscape
and like fire - lay waste.

Artist Name: WILHELMUS BREIKERS

Artwork Title: BURN THE PLANET!

Medium: acrylic on paper

Size: 76 x 96cm

About the Artist:

I frequently start with representational studies that directly reflect the subject’s shapes, forms and colours, and then often retain some of that while creating a new thing that responds to the materiality of the making process and to ideas about, or suggested by, the subject.

Artist Statement:

This work, developed from an expansive view at Katoomba, N.S.W., suggests an uncertain fear for the landscape. This comes from thinking that this place we inhabit may not be indestructible and that to act out the title of the painting would be unforgiveable.

Artist Name: OTTO SCHMIDINGER

Artwork Title: CRYPT ON CAVIL

Medium: oils on canvas

Size: 90 x 76cm

About the Artist:

Otto has been painting full time for the past 10 years. Finalist in over 50 national competitions with 6 first and several second and thirds for portraits and landscapes.

Artist Statement:

A popular meeting place opposite the beach Macdonald's sits at the edge of the night club district in surfers paradise .Climate change could drastically alter the beachfront if we can not stop the sea rising.

Artist Name: LISA KURTZ

Artwork Title: NIGHTSCAPE 2020

Medium: Archival photographic print

Size: 60 x 90cm

About the Artist:

Lisa Kurtz is a photographic artist based in Brisbane, Australia. Her work explores concepts of memory, place and time.

Artist Statement:

I make a lot of work at night. Freed from the glare of reality I am able to explore that which reveals itself in the suburbs only in darkness.

Artist Name: ANNETTE BUKOVINSKY

Artwork Title: METANOIA CUBE WITH VIEW

Medium: Fired Clay

Size: 15 x 15cm

About the Artist:

My practice largely focuses on investigating humanity's relationship with nature via the use of clay. Clay is a material that is known paradoxically for its strength and fragility. As such, it has many relatable characteristics that may increase the dialogue regarding the challenges that threaten the vitality of our planet.

Artist Statement:

The Australia landscape has experienced several calamitous climate events recently, leaving little doubt that we are faced with mounting pressure to reconsider long-established norms in order to protect the landscapes vitality and ecological integrity. 'Metanoia Cube with View' explores some of my thoughts and concerns regarding these matters.

Artist Name: NIKKY MORGAN-SMITH

Artwork Title: SPIDER LILY IN FLOOD

Medium: Acrylic on linen

Size: 90 x 100cm

About the Artist:

Born in northern NSW graduated from RMIT and SCU nikky has done several artist in residence, been included in show national and international collected world wide and won various art prizes.

Artist Statement:

This work was made while packing up my mothers house after she dies, her Lily’s were in flower. The landscape was wet from the recent floods.

Judge’s Comment:

I like the simplicity of this composition with feelings of overcast wetness

Artist Name: HENRI VAN NOORDENBURG

Artwork Title: COMPOSITION LIX

Medium: Handcarved inkjet print

Size: 140 x 110cm

About the Artist:

Henri has developed a new technique of hand carving inkjet prints. This unique technique in combination with photography marked a significant change in his art practice. He received several grants and awards, including an artist in residency at The Living Room in Manila and featured in the inaugural Manila Biennale ‘Open City’ 2018.

Artist Statement:

Diaspora and climate change have been the focus of my art practice for over a decade. Composition LIX, questions the morality of human survival in the face of self-afflicted global warming. The overall composition bares witness to nature’s condemnation, with the protagonist at mercy of the landscape.


Reproduction photography credits: Mark Sherwood

Artist Name: ANDREW BONNEAU

Artwork Title: WANGETTI BEACH, LATE AFTERNOON.

Medium: Oil on wood

Size: 40 x 60cm

About the Artist:

Andrew is known for his portraits, figures, still lifes and landscapes, and his work is characterised by the luminosity he brings to each of these genres.
He has been selected as a finalist for many national painting awards, including the Moran Portrait Prize and the Archibald Prize, and was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.

Artist Statement:

There are many beautiful places to paint where I live in Far North Queensland but I've always been drawn to this coastline in late afternoon. I would set up my easel at the same time each day to capture the subdued colours and reflected light on the ocean surface.

Artist Name: CHRISTOPHER MCLEOD

Artwork Title: AFTERNOON STORM - TASMANIA

Medium: OIL

Size: 101 x 101cm

About the Artist:

CHRISTOPHER MCLEOD was born in Brisbane and was educated in Darwin. He has had many One Man Shows and mixed exhibitions around Australia between 1987 and the present. He is at present working on a Series called HALF THE WORLD covering his visits to Asia. His paintings have been sold around the world.

Artist Statement:

In 2019 I arrived in the town of Strahan in Western Tasmania hoping to witness one of their famous Southern Ocean Storms and the locals directed me to a perfect viewing area.
This awesome storm fulfilled my wishes and it was an experience I will never forget.

Judge’s Comment:

Captures nicely the feeling of serious impending storm

Artist Name: PAULA IRENE PAYNE

Artwork Title: MINE MATTERS; EARTHWORKS

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 91 x 133cm

About the Artist:

My paintings explore ways of thinking about and producing landscape with an emphasis on the narratives of specific places and how these remain in the geology of that place. I view the landscape as a place that is politicised through what happens too and on the land. Environmental issues are the
ongoing stories of this time, and I attempt to connect with the viewer and to consider alternative ways in which we can inhabit this amazing world.

Artist Statement:

My painting explores a way of thinking about and looking at the landscape. I see the landscape as a place that is politicised by what we humans do too and on the land. Human interventions are etched into and can remain within the structure of a place. In this work I present Mining is an issue for debate in Australia and many other countries as I choose to highlight the environmental aspect of an open cut mine in this image. I also consider the traditional owners of the land and how these earthworks impact on Indigenous cultures.

Judge’s Comment:

Facing squarely the reality of contemporary landscape, Payne's work brings a sense of light, beauty and abstraction to human formed landscapes. Digging us in further, holding our attention, the painting presents the viewer with questions about how it came to be like this.

Artist Name: RAQUEL COBB

Artwork Title: ON THE WAY TO THE SEVEN SISTERS

Medium: Reduction Linocut

Size: 45 x 45cm

About the Artist:

Ross River, Alice Springs, is a great source of inspiration for me. Every year since 2013 Jim Cob and I, along with a group of artists from Sydney visit this place. Colour reduction lino cut is for me the ideal medium to express ideas about the landscape.

Artist Statement:

In this series on the Central Desert, I am trying to capture the light at different times of the day. It is fascinating how the colours on the rocks change, from morning to midday to dusk. I feel relief printing, lino cutting, is ideal for expressing ideas about the dry landscape's roughness.

Artist Name: CARMEL MONTAGUE

Artwork Title: GOLDEN HOUR

Medium: Oil

Size: 25 x 51cm

About the Artist:

Brisbane artist Carmel Montague is inspired by the landscape and the sky that frames it. Exploring both real and imagined places, she is particularly drawn to light and colour and capturing the mood these evoke.

Artist Statement:

Drawn to the golden early evening colours of a winters day in Warwick, and capturing the quiet peacefulness of the landscape.

Judge’s Comment:

The small scale of the painting seems to emphasise the expanse of the view. Skilful and economic in execution, the painting takes an honest look at a familiar Queensland landscape.

Judge’s Comment:

For a small painting this seems to capture nicely the vastness of this type of landscape

Artist Name: GRANT QUINN

Artwork Title: MISTY MORNING

Medium: Photography

Size: 70 x 57cm

About the Artist:

Photography has the ability to capture the 'real world', whether it be through natural disaster or courage and victory. Grant uses photography as a way to record life, to record as it is now. Grant believes that his photography can be something that can bring happiness, joy and even sadness, by capturing 'the moment'.

Artist Statement:

As the day breaks, mist hovers over the water, rising through the trees, and blending into the natural beauty of the landscape. Enveloping it’s surroundings, while creating a sense of uncertainty of what lies beyond the mist.

Artist Name: MARISA AVANO

Artwork Title: SUBWAY EXIT - PARLIAMENT STATION

Medium: acrylic

Size: 92 x 122cm

About the Artist:

Painting is a journey to self-discovery, an observation into the world around us, and a way of finding a connection with the viewer.
My work is informed by my experience with the landscape and encounters with people.
Finalist: Gosford Art Prize; Percival Portrait Painting Prize; Bay of Fires Art Prize.

Artist Statement:

Subway Exit – Parliament Station
Commuters rising out of a subway tunnel at Parliament Station Melbourne. Each person drawn to their destination. Strangers and familiar faces, walking up the stairs towards the light of day.

Artist Name: SOPHIE PEREZ

Artwork Title: WE WILL NEVER SEE SUCH TREES AGAIN

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 85 x 90cm

About the Artist:

Perez is a British born artist who graduated from the RCA London with an MA in Painting.
Over time, Sophie has developed a deep love of both; the Australian environment, and the process of painting itself. Through painting these places the artist is documenting more than the eye sees alone.

Artist Statement:

Climate change and the impact it has on so many aspects of our living world is becoming more and more apparent. My love for the landscape and trees is a subject I have painted for many years, questioning ones own existence and experience of a place.

Judge’s Comment:

I like the strength of this with a nice depiction of the starkness of ravaged trees.

Artist Name: STEVE LOPES

Artwork Title: THE BACK GARDEN

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 98 x 158cm

About the Artist:

Steve Lopes aims to depict the relationship we have with our surrounds and does that in any way he can get the paint onto the surface and make it interesting. His work is held in the National Gallery of Australia and other public institutions and private collections.

Artist Statement:

a painting of my friends backyard

Artist Name: WAYNE SINGLETON

Artwork Title: RAINFOREST AT ILKLEY, QUEENSLAND

Medium: hand coloured linocut print

Size: 46 x 70cm

About the Artist:

Printmaking makes me be still and it gives me a grounding that comes from reflecting on my relational place in the world; it is a way of being in it.
I draw then cut my relief blocks in lino. Relief block-making has been a constant thread throughout my adult life.

Artist Statement:

I like quietly observing forest lifeforms, seeing how they accommodate each other. A life that compromises and best adapts to constant change around it; survives, taking on an interesting and unexpected character and form. The forest grows in legacy soil from the life that has gone before it. We breathe the legacy oxygen.

Judge’s Comment:

For a linocut I think this is amazing. I like the overall abstract pattern that really gives a feeling of the entanglement of the bush.

Artist Name: STEVEN GORMAN

Artwork Title: CALLING FROM A COUNTRY PHONE

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 30 x 40cm

About the Artist:

Whilst predominantly self taught, Steve studied for a short period at Julian Ashton’s School of Art in Sydney. His current focus is on landscape and figurative compositions. He has won a number of first prizes and recently shortlisted finalist in the Dust Temple portrait prize, the 2020 Lethbridge 20000 and Clayton Utz art prizes

Artist Statement:

This depicts Brisbane Street in Murwillumbah. I like the artificial light of telephone booths, I’m not sure why, there’s a certain desolation to them, and have been the silent protagonist in so many and varied conversations....witnesses I guess. And I just liked the aesthetic and perspective of this view.

Artist Name: TAMMY WHITWORTH

Artwork Title: WHIRL

Medium: oil

Size: 30 x 23cm

About the Artist:

Tammy studied at the Adelaide Central School of Art, graduating with Honours in 2008. After exhibiting in Adelaide, then raising three babies, Tammy is now a Brisbane based painter focusing on a connection between emotions, animals and nature.

Artist Statement:

Layers of elements in the landscape represent the emotions of life; grass, flowers, trees, they all become one. The Cockatoos are a natural addition circling, immersed, stuck, flying, displaying the beauty in the chaos of life.

Artist Name: LYN LAVER-AHMAT

Artwork Title: NINDAROO AFTERNOON

Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media

Size: 90 x 90cm

About the Artist:

Painting is a medium through which I can express my inner response about feelings for nature and concerns for the environment. My present work focuses mainly on the abstracted landscape and I find inspiration from its many moods of desolation of desire as well as the beauty of light and how it defines the surface of land, sky, or water.

Artist Statement:

Nindaroo is in the country about 8 kms from Mackay. It has a lot of varying shades of green hills with cows and fences. The scenery shows multiple perspectives that seem to distort as houses and fences appear on different levels.

Judge’s Comment:

I find this a very satisfying abstracted treatment, with a beautiful colour palette and just enough form to signify the landscape.

Artist Name: BRUCE BUCHANAN

Artwork Title: LIGHT THROUGH THE HILLS

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 40 x 65cm

About the Artist:

Bruce Buchanan is a realist landscape painter working in watercolours.
His work is distinctive for the interplay of light and shadow and often demonstrates a degree of subtle abstraction.
His work is rarely “place specific” but relies on mood and atmosphere for its impact.

Artist Statement:

This watercolour painting is of the soft light on a cold frosty morning in the Adelaide Hills. The trees were casting their long shadows across the paddock. The sheep fence provides a linear counterpoint to the vanishing landscape in the distance.

Artist Name: JAMES RICHES

Artwork Title: LOCKDOWN LIGHT

Medium: Oil on Birchply Panel

Size: 13 x 23cm

About the Artist:

Drawing has always been a key interest leading me to explore illustration, observational drawing and conceptual ideas of contemporary drawing into painting. Currently focused on this long held interest in painting, an entire reinterpretation of my art practice and a search for new ways to work is emerging.

Artist Statement:

Paintings developed from a backyard view during lockdown, the garden is so complex with rambling foliage I can only suggest a few silhouetted branches and a corrugated iron roof in dying light. Never painted from direct observation - imagination, reference and time turn these fleeting lightscapes into oil studies.

Artist Name: EVAN HOLLIS

Artwork Title: CAPERTEE

Medium: Linocut relief print

Size: 40 x 36cm

About the Artist:

Initially my interest was in sculpture, this led me to complete a USQ Fine Arts degree majoring in printmaking under Normana Wight who was very keen on instilling the notion of "print as document”.
As an avid motorcyclist this suited my creativity entirely.

Artist Statement:

Producing an image utilizing a wide range of dynamic, mark making techniques gives the art object a life of its own. Capertee Canyon is one of the oldest and widest on the face of the Earth and has many more stories to tell than my brief encounter can convey.

Artist Name: BEATRICE PROST

Artwork Title: ANCESTORS

Medium: Etched unique print on aluminium

Size: 51 x 76cm

About the Artist:

As a multi media artist, I paint, carve, work on canvasses, paper and aluminium. Many works on aluminium are based on unique prints of moments I have witnessed. Immersed in nature where time stopped and when I found a deep connection, I re-imagine, re-combine and transfer their magic.

Artist Statement:

The retention of mangroves has been and will continue to be vital to the ongoing environmental health of our waterways. And when the mature trees hold firm on the ground, the new generation can already anchor itself. Ancestors is an ode to resilience, continuity and preservation.

Judge’s Comment:

Light becomes material and vibrant in this Japanese influenced landscape.

Artist Name: EVA BELTRAN

Artwork Title: ADAGIO (THE FALLEN BRANCHES)

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 122 x 177cm

About the Artist:

Eva Beltran has an expressionist approach to subjects, aiming to depict an emotional experience more than a physical reality. Her work talks about landscapes, emotions, and memories through abstract figurations where intricate perspective is conveyed through linework variations and layers of paint. These "storytelling paintings" often incorporate symbolic elements.

Artist Statement:

The fallen branches. They were lying on the side of a rough pathway in the middle of the natural park where I walk daily. Defiant, cut, fallen and forgotten. Dying with so much life. Surrounding nature embraced them fiercely creating a visual rhythm that reminded me of an adagio. A strong, slow and solemn adagio.

Judge’s Comment:

Immersive and energetic the process evident in this painting captures something of the movement of ground beneath our feet. Entangled, rock and branch are inseparable.

Artist Name: GARY ABKIN

Artwork Title: AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE, BURNT BUSH

Medium: Enamel and oil on plywood

Size: 80 x 60cm

About the Artist:

Studied at the California Institute of Art before graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998 with a BFA. In 2003 relocated from California to Brisbane and now works and lives in Ipswich.

Artist Statement:

Recent works inspired by the Australian landscape.

Artist Name: SCOTT PATTERSON

Artwork Title: ROYAL GEORGE IN ISOLATED LIGHT.

Medium: Photograph

Size: 23 x 23cm

About the Artist:

Temporarily attended College of Art at Seven Hills in the 80’s. Honed my skills in the heady world of Brisbane commercial studio photography. Influenced by everyone.

Artist Statement:

This photographic landscape was made during a COVID lockdown. Late night sojourns searching for artificial light. Discovering a landscape in the relative safety of isolation. Highlighting the loneliness.

Artist Name: DIANE MURPHY

Artwork Title: SUNDOWN ON MAIN BEACH

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 53.5 x 70cm

About the Artist:

I’ve spent many hours on the beach so I live and breath the landscape. I’ve drawn and painted all my life embracing watercolour the last few years.

Artist Statement:

This piece expresses the beauty of the light and the longing for the day to go on. Warm summer days allow for the cool of the afternoons when we can enter the landscape for more delicious pleasure.

Judge’s Comment:

A fairly traditional watercolour, but handled with a great technique, and a lovely touch for capturing the light and ambience of this type of subject.

Artist Name: KEVIN MARRIAGE

Artwork Title: VIEW FROM THE TERRACE

Medium: Erasure drawing on plaster

Size: 120 x 80cm

About the Artist:

This work is a continuation of my experiments in erasure drawing on plaster, I am constantly amazed at the dimensionality that can be achieved by removing. This one has thin layers of green and yellow Tempera over white plaster.

Artist Statement:

Erasure drawing on Plaster. As before but coating with a green tinted layer of egg tempera and then a yellow tinted layer of egg tempera. Erasure is done with various shaped steel implements, different grades of sandpaper and pencil erasers.

Judge’s Comment:

An intriguing technique producing a satisfying dance of tree trunks, with lovely colour references to the Australian landscape and possible aftermath of bushfire.

Artist Name: CAROLYN CRAIG

Artwork Title: TERMITE TEXTS

Medium: artist book and cast concrete

Size: 15 x 40cm

About the Artist:

Carolyn is an interdisciplinary artist examining body gesture and language through performative processes. She is currently a board member for Frontyard ARI, Marrickville, Sydney and recently opened SchmickProjects a new artist run space in Haymarket. She holds a PHD from the Queensland College of Art.

Artist Statement:

Termite Texts examines the home as relational discourse – to capital – feminist politics and the need to de-centre modes of production and viewing. It involved myself = termites – a house – a builder –three pest control providers and a radio producer. Using site-based investigation, I considered structure – as object – discourse and thought through dismantling my home. I saw the house as a geographic and sociological enterprise and asked how do we dismantle capital relations of desire and learn to talk to termites?

Artist Name: NICK BANNEHR

Artwork Title: NEWNES #1

Medium: Fibre-based digital pigment print. Edition of 7

Size: 160 x 127cm

About the Artist:

Nick is an Australian photographer currently pursuing long-term personal projects in documentary styles, with a passion for visual storytelling through both photography and video. His primary interests lay in documenting people, traces and subcultures in their natural circumstances.

Artist Statement:

'Newnes #1' is a photograph from an ongoing body of work in response to the 2019/20 summer bushfires here in Australia.
Working with a large-format field camera and infrared film stock allows Nick to capture the impact the fires have had on the landscape and provide a sense of devastation by focusing closely on the regeneration process and the relationship between the burnt trees and the new life sprouting from within.

Artist Name: CATHERINE PARKER

Artwork Title: THE SKY POOL 1

Medium: acrylic and ink

Size: 16 x 35cm

About the Artist:

Catherine Parker is a painter / mixed media artist based in Toowoomba, Queensland.

Adept at creating makeshift studios, Parker readily inhabits the urban and natural spaces in which she finds herself - from the Himalayas in North India to Magnetic Island, North Qld. Based in Toowoomba on the Great Dividing Range, her home studio is surrounded by birds and native plants. Landscape is the one constant continuum in Parker’s Art practice.

Parker’s work is held in various public and corporate collections

Artist Statement:

The urban swimming pool contains memories. Travelling with my family as a child of 6 in the old 70's Ford station wagon on camping trips was a big deal. With a pool attached - the peak of luxury. This pool is gleaned from my travels in the landscape on road trips.

Artist Name: CATHY YARWOOD - MAHY

Artwork Title: FINALE

Medium: oil

Size: 91 x 153cm

About the Artist:

Cathy is a Melbourne artist with a particular interest in landscapes. Her work captures the ethereal and spiritual aspects of the natural world and she incorporates a high level of detail to achieve her aims. Her use of light has a pivotal role in creating impact and mood.

Artist Statement:

To be in awe of nature, dwarfed by the size of a mountain and overwhelmed by the impossibly beautiful colours of a sky at dusk remains an experience that is truly precious. We should pause from the busy life of humans and our troubles to appreciate something apart from us, something that can be found in our own land, if you look in the right place at the right time.
This painting of Ben Lomond, Tasmania, is an example of my recent landscape work which focusses on capturing transcendent moments in nature.

Artist Name: ALISON MURPHY

Artwork Title: SENTINEL REGENERATION

Medium: Oils

Size: 60 x 76cm

About the Artist:

A love of family, this country and nature inspire me to capture people and places in art form. I am especially passionate about painting our unique landscape. Experienced in the use of Oils, Pastel, graphite, pen, coloured pencils and acrylics, my early works were commissions of historic buildings and other rural subjects.
My work has been acquired by Shire Councils, City Councils and Regional Government Departments as well as by private collectors nationally.
I have been selected as an exhibiting finalist in the prestigious Brisbane Rotary Art Spectacular each year since 2013, with multiple sales at these events.

Artist Statement:

The soft blue grey distance and colours of the Australian landscape challenge me to create artwork that conveys Australia’s unique light. A land of extreme contrasts, I also aspire to share its harsh beauty. My work is traditional in style using oil on board or canvas, and at times pastel.

Artist Name: DARYL J AUSTIN

Artwork Title: DISRUPTIONS #2 2020

Medium: Oil on wood panel

Size: 62 x 78cm

About the Artist:

Daryl Austin has worked as a painter and educator for the past 30 years. He has held numerous exhibitions throughout Australia yet works primarily from Adelaide.
He is a senior lecturer in painting at the Adelaide Central School of Art since 2000. He is represented by Gagprojects/Greenaway Art Gallery.

Artist Statement:

"Disruptions #2 2020" is from a series of paintings which have explored the shifting, temporal nature of the urban landscape, constantly altering, appearing and disappearing which is then emphasised through disruptions to both the image and to the faceted painted surfaces to create new tensions.

Artist Name: JASON ROBERTS

Artwork Title: CITY DAY

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 79 x 54cm

About the Artist:

Jason Roberts is a Melbourne artist with an international career spanning three decades. Extremely versatile, he spent 9 months in Greece in 2017-18 depicting traditional livestock breeds for an exhibition in Athens, while his current project, begun during Melbourne’s lockdown, has him painting streetscapes of the city’s Grafitti laneways.

Artist Statement:

Above Hosier Lane a portrait of an aboriginal boy gazes serenely into the distance, while closer to ground layers of more prosaic sprays create a colourful tapestry. I’m drawn to the energy of this Grafitti, and how it sits in Melbourne’s urban fabric, a meeting of artistic sensibilities centuries apart.

Artist Name: LEW BRENNAN

Artwork Title: REFLECTING ON A RURAL LANDSCAPE

Medium: Oil

Size: 61 x 91cm

About the Artist:

I create for myself, working in charcoal & in oil paints. To me the art of drawing with a burned stick of wood onto paper is primal in its application & spiritual in its essence.
My ultimate goal with each creation is to capture and transfer emotion. My subjects vary but rarely stray too far from respecting small town culture, remote spaces and the living things within them.

Artist Statement:

Throughout Australia you can pull into a sleepy little one horse town with an old Art Deco movie theatre long closed down, and one cafe still open where you get a coffee in a paper cup and a pie and wish you got the toasted sandwich, and then you drive....

Artist Name: RYAN WILLIAM DAFFURN

Artwork Title: BALMORAL CEMETERY

Medium: Oil on linen

Size: 56 x 91cm

About the Artist:

The artist was born in Brisbane and grew up in the Redlands. His early art studies were at the Balmoral Arts Academy under Christine Kirkegard and Kay Kane.

After several years travelling and living in Europe, Ryan is now based in Brisbane and exhibits in Sydney.

Artist Statement:

This painting was made during 2020 as part of a series of landscapes about the Brisbane Bayside area.

Artist Name: HOWARD SEARCHFIELD

Artwork Title: DEEP REFLECTION

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 90 x 90cm

Artist Name: LYN DIEFENBACH

Artwork Title: THE RIPPLE EFFECT

Medium: Pastel

Size: 60 x 60cm

About the Artist:

I find myself continually challenged by the complexity of the world of reflections. The challenge is to look beyond face value and to see the multifaceted levels of reflected life. Every year I add at least one painting to the series, something that I will continue to do until I’m physically incapable.

Artist Statement:

The reflected world sometimes holds more information than any other. In the case of moving water we are presented with the delightful conundrum of distorted reality. This can be confusing but it has its own life of rhythm and pattern.

Judge’s Comment:

A bit Monet, but still a nice painting

Artist Name: SAL COOPER

Artwork Title: SENTIMENT LOGISITCS

Medium: digital image

Size: 108 x 84cm

About the Artist:

Sal utilizes an observational language that gives expression to deliberate misunderstandings, absurd irregularities and comic abstractions. She employs complex and refined production techniques to project a lyrical depth and meaning onto objects and landscapes - fully exploring the imaginative possibilities of the ordinary world around us.

Artist Statement:

I am recording and manipulating the urban environment around me to extract some meaning and humanism from it. The result is a wry commentary on our emotional burdens.

Judge’s Comment:

I likevthe message

Artist Name: SUSAN JACOBSEN

Artwork Title: THE AMPHITHEATRE, CARNARVON GORGE

Medium: Cast compounds, ceramic and stains stains

Size: 20 x 18cm

About the Artist:

Landscape acts as a rich catalyst for Susan Jacobsen , in an Art practice exploring drawing, collage, sculpture and painting. Site abstraction respond to raw beauty, atmospheric transience and the ancient profundity of Australia. Emotive marks are unrestrained in response to a land revered.

Artist Statement:

The Amphitheatre, Carnarvon Gorge

Hidden inside the walls of Carnarvon Gorge, is a chasm, so remarkable, in it’s resounding acoustics and powerful soaring verticality. Gouged rock, etched by the water of time, soars to the open skylight, allowing a revered place of contemplative silence below.

Artist Name: LEE HARROP

Artwork Title: DOWN TO EARTH

Medium: Hand engraved geological core sample

Size: 5 x 37cm

About the Artist:

Lee is a PhD candidate at Charles Darwin University. She has a Master of Fine Arts (1st Hons) from Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, New Zealand. Her recent artworks offer a representation of mining that can be considered alongside the wider global discourse surrounding mining and its environmental impact.

Artist Statement:

Down-to-earth is hand engraved into a geological core sample which is a cylindrical piece of rock created in a mining extraction process – from the landscape.

Artist Name: KERRY DRYSDALE

Artwork Title: EIDSVOLD

Medium: mixed media

Size: 30 x 50cm

About the Artist:

I have been producing artwork since childhood. Later in life I studied a visual art in Toowoomba in 1977 and then taught art in schools and adult workshops in SE Qld.. Over the years I have had several exhibitions in Brisbane. I sell my art on line around Australia. Over the years I have spent time in various art forms including video, mosiacs, murals and miniatures. The vast majority of my work has been landscape in oils or acrylic. I love the amazing variety of green in our tropical rainforests as well as the deep red colours of Western Australia. I have also been fortunate to have travelled to various parts of the world looking for inspiration. At the moment I am working fulltime on my art practice and developing my style and subject matter. my blogspot kerrydrysdaleart.blogspot.com has a number of my past exhibitions.

Artist Statement:

'Eidsvold'' is part of a series of miniature sculptures that I have produced over the past few years. It celebrates the beauty of aged and decaying buildings set in our tropical Queensland climate and landscape. It is based on a real house in the town of Eidsvold. My miniatures are all based on real buildings in Brisbane and other parts of Queensland. Eddie Putera a Malaysian miniaturest inspired me with his wonderfully run down, rusted buildings and street scenes. Josh Smith in Adelaide and David Houragan in Melbourne are doing similar work otherwise the minaitureist scene in Australia seems pretty small. After many years a landscape painter creating miniatures like this one has been such a challenge and so much fun! The little boy in me who loved making plaster of paris landcapes is very happy! It would be great if your exhibition could include a miniature!

Judge’s Comment:

Points for patience and perseverance.

Artist Name: GEORGE FETTING

Artwork Title: BURLEIGH #1

Medium: Fine Art Canvas

Size: 80 x 120cm

About the Artist:

George Fetting is an Australian photographer and visual artist living and working in Sydney. Both a fine art and commercial photographer, his various works consist of portraits, seascapes, urban observations and digital manipulations. Eight of his portraits hang in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery Canberra.

Artist Statement:

‘Liquidity’ creates a theme that explores time, motion, fluid and space – the palette renders tones, colour and movement in painterly visages, a coalescence of blended tones.
Luminous and radiant these images often evoke a sense of calm – of purpose and place.
Fluid skies and etheric seas. Flow and reflection.

Artist Name: PAT HALL

Artwork Title: HARMONY

Medium: watercolour

Size: 91 x 122cm

About the Artist:

Pat Hall paints large scale watercolours on stretched paper canvases which are then sealed, front and back, with a UV stabilised and waterproof coating. She floods her paintings with colour, breathing new life into the medium.

Artist Statement:

‘Harmony’ is part of the varied landscape of Mount Coot-tha Botanical Gardens and explores the harmonious balances created in nature.
The Lotus flower thrives in muddy water and rises above the surface to bloom with remarkable beauty…. Untouched by the impurity, lotus symbolizes the purity of heart and mind.

Artist Name: TRICIA TAYLOR

Artwork Title: RESCUE ME

Medium: oil

Size: 100 x 100cm

About the Artist:

“Light has always fascinated me. It brings clarity, hope and unveils our path. With art as the vehicle, I tell the story of light whether the hope of a sunrise or the light falling on a child’s face.” Working in oils and pastels Tricia became a Master Pastellist in 2011.

Artist Statement:

The storms of life can feel overwhelming at times. But looking to the light on the horizon, beyond our darkened doubts and troubled times, you can feel a change coming. A hope that helps us rise above the waves.

Judge’s Comment:

A nice feeling of the power of nature well handled.

Artist Name: DAVID CROSS

Artwork Title: NUNDLE TERRAIN

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 102 x 92cm

About the Artist:

Award-winning Visual Artist and Clayton Utz Finalist, 2017, David Cross’ inspiration is the environment, using light as a catalyst and how it imparts on the subject matter. "When light hits an object, it reflects, refracts, casts shadows and is even absorbed in the object. I focus on how I interpret this light as it reveals colour and form."

Artist Statement:

I am consistently fascinated with how light plays upon a surface. Currently, I am focused on the shiny reflections echoing off of the metal/chrome parts of classic cars. With this exhibition, I met the challenge to push the boundaries of traditional landscape by presenting multiple and abstracted vistas on this vintage truck through its reflections of the ‘scape’.

Artist Name: GRACE CROSS

Artwork Title: RABBIT PROOF FENCE

Medium: Mixed media 3D: rusted paper, vintage linen, metal, stitch

Size: 27 x 100cm

About the Artist:

“Nonrepresentational in form, each of my artworks is a personal vocabulary of marks reflecting Texture as the primary focus; creating layered mixed media/textile artworks with a fusion of rusting, fibres, fabric, paper, acrylics, stitching, gold leaf, beading and/or embellishments.” Grace is an awarded and accomplished textile artist with a BSc from the USA in Textile Design; winning various awards in Brisbane Art prizes and selected juried exhibitions for her mixed media/textile works.

Artist Statement:

The State Barrier Fence of WA was designed to keep pests out of pastoral lands. The movie, Rabbit Proof Fence, used this barrier as a symbolic portrayal of the Stolen Generations. The concertina format, rusted papers, hand stitch threads, journeys the viewer through the desolate, spinifex terrain of WA outback.

Judge’s Comment:

This almost made it to my 10 list. I like the simplicity of the idea and the lovely use of the materials and earth colour.

Artist Name: KAILUM GRAVES

Artwork Title: DATA ROCK (TAKE ME SOMEWHERE NICE)

Medium: 6 pigment prints on Hahnemühle cotton rag, framed, museum glass

Size: 120 x 180cm

About the Artist:

Kailum Graves is critically obsessed with the artifactual digital object. He works predominantly in the medium of photography and within the sphere of the photographic process. His practice reflects the influence of technology on the photographic medium and sits resolutely within the context of future movements of contemporary photography.

Artist Statement:

Data Rock (Take Me Somewhere Nice) is a series of abstract landscapes created by sequentially copying the colour of every pixel in six 100px x 100px images and pasting it successively to create entirely new images. Pixels interest me because they are the smallest controllable element of a picture.

Artist Name: SONIA MARTIGNON

Artwork Title: REST YOUR SPIRIT IN EARTH'S QUIET PLACES

Medium: Acrylic and oil on hand cut plywood

Size: 59 x 48cm

About the Artist:

Living in the verdant Top End and armed with the belief that all living things are connected by the habitats we share, my work aims to capture the precious wilderness, documenting its wealth of colour, shape, spirit, and mood, paying homage to the fertile environments that are under constant threat.

Artist Statement:

Climate drawdown is the most comprehensive scientific plan we have developed to reverse the destruction of our nature world. Sequestering carbon in the soil, drawing it down through our precious plants, will mean we can reverse centuries of human folly. Protecting and regenerating our disappearing forests and bushland is key.

Artist Name: ALEXANDRA MATTHEWS

Artwork Title: HOME BY NIGHTFALL

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 64 x 81cm

About the Artist:

Painting scenes from her evening walks, Alexandra translates the light and shadows of her local urban landscape. Capturing the intensity of night and the calm stillness.

Artist Statement:

Capturing the quietly celebrated time of day for many...the trip home. The light is thrown from windows and street lights to pool and spread. I'm drawn to the welcoming lights. There's fear to be found in the shadows but it melts with a flick of a switch. Colours take on a new intensity, no longer washed out by the sun.

Artist Name: RICHARD BARDSLEY-SMITH

Artwork Title: GREEN FACADE

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 54 x 74cm

About the Artist:

Recent achievments include the 2019 Hunters Hill Watercolour Prize, the 2021 Art of Sydney Water Medium Prize and a finalist in the 2021 Gallipoli Art Prize. He is a member of the Australian Watercolour Institute and President of his local Art Society.

Artist Statement:

This amazing facade was a hotch potch of doors, cladding and windows. But somehow it looked just right. Very Australian. I wondered what activities the building had once seen. Our bright sun created strong shadows, peeling the paint, draining the colour and throwing up a feast of textures and patterns.

Judge’s Comment:

A subject after my own heart. A representational subject of abstract patterns, beautifully handled in watercolour.

Artist Name: LARS VESTER

Artwork Title: MOUNT COOT-THA MORNING

Medium: oil on linen

Size: 76 x 152cm

About the Artist:

Lars Vester is a Danish born artist living in Brisbane, working predominantly in the medium of oils.

Lars has had a number of successful exhibitions in both Europe and Australia, including various solo, group and Finalist's exhibitions. Some of his career highlights include winning the Artworld Landscape Prize, Best Oil at the Rotary Art Spectacular and taking out First Place in two seperate Painting Categories at the worldwide Light, Space & Time Art Exhibitions.

Lars’ work is represented in several private and corporate collections around the globe.

Artist Statement:

My landscapes generally seek to convey a sense of place, peace and serenity through the emotive and ephemeral qualities of colour and light.
Mount Coot-Tha Morning is an attempt to slow things down a little, allowing the viewer a moment of introspection and self reflection.

Artist Name: JAN JORGENSEN

Artwork Title: DOWN THE BACK ( CHARLOTTE STREET, PADDINGTON)

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 51 x 76cm

About the Artist:

First a wildlife artist from outer suburbia, then for thirty years an urban landscape painter focusing on
Brisbane - the light & darks of urban environment.
Many Brisbane & Sydney solo exhibitions have contrasted the continual transitions - old to new,
influencing our attitudes, memories, character - both negative & positive.

Grateful Wm. Robinson was both youth & midlife tutor over 5 yrs.

Artist Statement:

Seen across an empty lot awaiting development were these two old last century houses in big rambling country style backyards.
This seemed to me the landscape of a fading suburban childhood caught in time within the built up,
crowded in, pristine glass of inner suburban Paddington.

Artist Name: LIAM WALDIE

Artwork Title: HEADING NORTH

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 90 x 120cm

About the Artist:

Liam Waldie’s oil paintings primarily represent the Australian landscape. Drawing upon personal memories he creates dreamlike mindscapes captured in a moment. He is based on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia. Waldie exhibits in group and solo shows and is represented by galleries in Victoria and New South Wales.

Artist Statement:

The winding roads and endless horizons make up travelling across the Australian landscape. Blue mountains sit in the distance. A bending turn takes you closer, take a left by the dam. Hold on.

Artist Name: RORY O'CHEE

Artwork Title: IMMORTAL TREE (LAKE MUNGO, 2019)

Medium: photographic print onto art rag

Size: 100 x 70cm

About the Artist:

Rory O’Chee is a very exciting photographer who brings a unique and uncompromising
perspective to landscape photography. His work is unfiltered. He finds ways to let the landscape
speak for itself, very much as Ansel Adams did, and the results are breathtaking.

Artist Statement:

In a landscape hazy,
smouldering in the desert heat,
disappearing into the wasteland fast,
stands an Immortal Tree,
thriving against the odds.

Artist Name: RYAN WHITE

Artwork Title: #80 - APOSTLES

Medium: Oil

Size: 36 x 24cm

About the Artist:

Having started painting in 2017 at the age of 17, I had practiced eagerly to develop my small-scale photorealistic landscape art style. I was highly-commended in the Lethbridge 20000 two consecutive years (2018/19), a finalist in the 2019 Clayton Utz prize, and winner of the 2019 D'Arcy Doyle Emerging Artist Award.

Artist Statement:

Captured on a blisteringly cold day, with violent winds and turbulent waves, this scene conveys the ever-evolving coastline of southern Victoria to the backdrop of a winter sunrise. Being my last completed painting before my hiatus, I am especially fond of it and what it represents to me.

Artist Name: COLLEEN GUINEY

Artwork Title: PRETTY RIDE

Medium: mixed media

Size: 32 x 32cm

About the Artist:

The process of making art is very much about accessing and exposing Colleen’s emotional life. Most of it is from the subconscious and she chooses what to reveal and what to keep to herself. Colour is as important to Colleen as the technique and narrative. It plays a pivotal role in developing the emotional connection to a piece.

Artist Statement:

I let the artwork take me on a journey, reaching for memories as I break up the surface with paint and pencil. I reflect shapes and aesthetics that are linked to the nature I immerse myself in daily – in this instance, a favourite bike ride. Each mark I make leads to the next, nothing is planned.

Artist Name: SOPHIE DALGLEISH

Artwork Title: DAWN

Medium: Oil on linen

Size: 28 x 28cm

About the Artist:

My paintings are views through small windows, they are evocative vignettes of those soft warm , sensual experiences that we associate with luxuriating in beautiful countryside and feeling « at one with nature »

Artist Statement:

My paintings are views through small windows, they are evocative vignettes of those soft warm , sensual experiences that we associate with luxuriating in beautiful countryside and feeling « at one with nature »

Artist Name: ANNETTE PETERSON

Artwork Title: THROUGH THE TREES, (GIF, HD VIDEO 4.3 SEC)

Medium: Video

Size: 30 x 40cm

About the Artist:

Annette Peterson is an oil painter currently exploring the interplay of the moving image and painting. Her work investigates the light and atmosphere of suburban street scenes and the experience of driving from a female perspective. She recently graduated from Curtin University with Honours and Masters in Visual Art.

Artist Statement:

Through the Trees is an exploration in the digital, everyday and painting. Based on a three-second "Live" iOS photo, each frame has been remediated into 70 oil paintings and then reinstated back to digital form.
Through painting, I aim to capture fleeting and affectual moments, impossible to capture while driving.

Artist Name: TINA COOPER

Artwork Title: SUNSET OVER THE BLACKALL RANGE

Medium: Glass

Size: 52 x 36cm

About the Artist:

Tina Cooper is one of the leading figures in Hot Glass in Australia.
Her extensive career spans over 31 years.
To experience new techniques Tina travelled the World to study under many Glass Masters.
Her work will enrich your Soul and you will feel Tina's deep connection with Mother Nature.

Artist Statement:

Blackall Range, the heart of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, explodes at night with an alluring sunsets & rugged Glass House Mountains back drop. This lush subtropical rainforest with fertile rolling hills and fresh clean air will calm your Soul, open your mind & feeds anyone's creativity.

Judge’s Comment:

Capturing ideas of landscape in glass (made from sand) seems to bring the material of landscape into our domestic history. Transparency, sedimentary, illuminated, the vitality of rock comes to life.

Artist Name: ROSS HALFACREE

Artwork Title: MOMENTS IN TIME

Medium: Acrylic and mixed media on canvas

Size: 76 x 76cm

About the Artist:

A member of the Eramboo Artist Environment on Sydney’s northern beaches.
Using acrylic and mixed media, my objective is to initiate conversations by creating and displaying art that is generally unconstrained by rules and conventions, and that re-explores landscape and geometric abstractions as well as social and other contemporary themes.

Artist Statement:

Bushfires would say of themselves that they are treacherous, capricious, angry and unashamedly resplendent.
Using acrylics and mixed media, I have created 361 spontaneous fire flashes on acetate, and assembled them into a single image representing bushfires’ self-acclamation.
Not trivializing their destructive power but acknowledging these events as increasingly inevitable.

Artist Name: MARIANNE GRIGORE

Artwork Title: JACKS' SHOVEL

Medium: Sculpture; Black Granite, Rocks, Timber, Metal and acrylic paint

Size: 80 x 60cm

About the Artist:

I am a Brisbane-born and based self-taught contemporary artist. An enthusiastic and long standing member of Art Street, http:www.artist.com.au/artist-marianne-grigore.html., I also have my own boutique gallery, Blind Dog Gallery, http:www.blinddoggallery.com.

Artist Statement:

Jacks’ Shovel
My fathers’ hands worked this shovel. It saw years of hard toil changing the face of the Australian landscape. Fencing, mining, building, fettling. The blade rusted, the handle worn and cracked. Jacks’ shovel epitomizes my family heritage and pioneering determination.