Watching Dawn Break and Dusk Fall

Unveiled in our top floor gallery, six oil on linen landscapes comprise ‘Watching Dawn Break and Dusk Fall’ – a collection of exquisitely painted landscapes from Port Stephens-based Linda Greedy

Areas of spareness in these views of Three Capes Track and Low Head, Tasmania give way to surging cacophonies of lines – denoting dense scrub – and revealing Linda’s formidable talent as a draughts-person. Here, the artist precisely evokes the emotional charge and monumentality of standing and walking within these landscapes. One senses the wind buffeting one’s face, hears the sigh of branches and smells the surge of the sea below. Linda has the rare talent of carrying the spectator directly into the picture.

‘Rocky Outcrop’ depicts a central tree curving sideways by the whipping coastal winds – and now only half supported by the ground on which it stands. The finesse and small workings of her brush gives this most ancient of subject matters a certain glory and presence. The exhilarating Tasmanian landscape is presented in lyrical detail.

For the artist, bushwalking “gifts (her) the opportunity to take time to immerse and appreciate the sights, sounds, and unpredictable weather of the natural environment.”.