This little painting is based on a section of the larger work Late Afternoon at Tinkers Hill.
House in the Valley
Late Afternoon Tinkers Hill
Soft western light falling over one of the farms on the ridge of Tinkers Hill, Kanimbla, NSW in late Autumn.
Back to the Well
This is a painting of Marsden Rock at Kanimbla, NSW. I’ve made several paintings of it since I first saw it and painted it en plein air from a friends verandah in 2015. Going back and painting it from different places has given me a sense of ownership and familiarity with this rocky outcrop that overlooks the Cox’s River but it’s so striking that I expect many other painters would have made their own views of it too, especially Warwick Fuller who lives right next to it.
Chinese Hills, Megalong
Aerial Perspective is a term known to some painters and photographers as the gradual fading and softening towards blue that we see when looking into the distant parts of a landscape- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_perspective . In traditional Chinese landscapes that often use a monochrome ink they achieve this by watering down the ink and softening the tones as the eye looks into the distance. They also exaggerate the distance, not by western perspective but by working the distant hills higher and higher towards the top of the paper or silk in an exaggerated way, usually not including a horizon at all. My painting uses western perspective, aerial perspective but shows the Kanimbla hills in a way that reminded me of a Chinese landscape.
Towards Shipley
This one is a plein air work of the Shipley Plateau as seen from Kanimbla. It had it’s finishing touches made in my studio after a day onsite as many of my plein air works do. I wanted to bring out the wonderful rhythm of the escarpment and the curves and bumps of the hills that lead the eye up to it.
Point Pilcher Bop
I made this plein air work at Point Pilcher near Medlow Bath in the Blue Mountains. The landscape was so dramatic that for some reason I felt the need to lighten it up and jazz it up with a bit of funky cartoon like brushwork, hence the title Point Pilcher Bop. The clouds are barely exaggerated.
Elioth’s Valley
A plein air painting from Kamimbla that looks back in an easterly direction towards Shipley’s Plateau. I’ve admired Elioth Gruner’s paintings since I first laid eyes on “Spring Frost” at the AGNSW when I was a small child. I really like the simplicity and the restrained Modernism of his Australian landscapes from the 1930’s and 40’s and tried to bring something from that in this painting.
Kanimbla Klingons
Nothing to do with Science Fiction, the reason I made this little plein air painting at Kanimbla is that I was attracted to the purple patches of bushes or vines that seemed to be riding the bright green roller coaster hills in the middle ground. They seemed to be stuck on, clinging on .
Last Rays From Hargreaves
Waves of mountains and hills catching the last rays from Hargreaves Lookout looking south
Corona
Late afternoon sun from Hargreaves Lookout near Blackheath NSW
Rhett Brewer - Artist 