Afternoon Gold at Glenbrook Lagoon
Harbour’s Edge- Manns Point Plein Air,
Sydney Harbour still offers plenty of places where a painter can work in relative privacy and find beautiful subjects. The moving patterns of the clear water that day presented me with the challenge of identifying what lies below and how the light was striking the rocks and plants while reflecting on the waves above without using photography to hold it down.
Balls Head to Blues Point Tower
This is a plein air painting made a Birchgrove on Sydney Harbour. The Blues Point Tower is seen by many as an eyesore because of it’s somewhat arrogant and intrusive location on one of Sydney’s beautiful headlands but I like it’s simple Modernist lines and colour. It, like the Harbour Bridge behind it, is a part of our history.
Towards the Shallows
Plein Air painting made at Bradleys Head, Sydney Harbour
Sydney Gothic
Topple
The sandstone edges of Sydney Harbour are lined with the twisting torsos of these Angophoras. Their smooth surface, skin colour and occasional lumps and bumps are very human like. I paint them as modern dancers as they twist and turn to position themselves to catch the light.
Yarramundi in Flood plein air 3
I spent more than a week painting the flooded rapids of the Nepean River and made 4 of these paintings. I was thinking about Courbet and the early 19th Century plein air painters and trying to get a feel for the way they saw things and the tonal treatment they gave their European landscapes. This one is pretty big and detailed for a plein air work and I’m pleased with the way the rocks show through the water.
Towards Wedding Cake Island
This is looking south towards Coogee from Clovelly when the waves were huge and the sea was churning
Moonlight over Clovelly
A view from Coogee showing the Full Moon rising over Clovelly on a beautiful Autumn evening
Last Light, North Bondi
The wet sand from the retreating tide give a mirror like reflection of the buildings on the headland as they catch the last rays of the day.
Rhett Brewer - Artist 