Afternoon Storm Clouds, Point Pilcher

By rhettbrewerpainter | March 27, 2024

Afternoon Storm Clouds, Point Pilcher, 61cm x 122cm, acrylic on linen, 2024– sold

This is my studio version of my earlier plein air work from an earlier post on this website. My studio paintings are more detailed and refined than my plein air works which are recorded quickly and expressively, but they are usually more imaginative and inventive too. I work from my photos but I always stray away from the photo-mechanical image of the photo and into a more interior space. I think this is a good example of what happens when I’m in a comfortable, controlled environment, with good appropriate music, lots of breaks and time to think.

Over Narrow Neck

By rhettbrewerpainter | March 7, 2023

Over Narrow Neck, 122cm x 183cm, acrylic on canvas, 2023

This large painting shows the view of Narrow Neck ridge that separates the Megalong Valley from the Jameson Valley in the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia.

Back to the Well

By rhettbrewerpainter | August 8, 2022

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.

Onement Homage

By rhettbrewerpainter | June 29, 2020

The title refers to a painting called Onement 1 by American Modernist painter Barnett Newman. He made very simple paintings which had very profound intentions about what a painting is and could be, also a symbol for the nature of something (someone) simply existing. That is what I saw in this tree.