As an artist, Bethany Saab is an exception to the general order of things. She is someone who’s built a broad following and achieved great critical success without the formative advantage of formal training. She now reaps the fruits of this tireless, independent work. Her still life paintings of fine white china, summery floral blooms and bright fruits are enthusiastically collected and frequently in demand.

Saab’s latest venture is Still Life, Blue Sky now on show at Michael Reid Southern Highlands. Not one to corner herself into a safe creative pattern, the artist introduces two exciting new elements to her repertoire: acrylic collage and trompe l’oeil.

We find, for the first time, painted hands in various poses and false frames that are natively set in amongst her assortment of objects. If one already felt they were taking an implied ‘seat’ at her painted tables, these new works jump outwards from the canvas deliberately and boldly.

Bethany Saab is an artist that succeeds in both small and large scale. Take note of the grandeur of ‘Child’s Love’, and, less than a quarter of its size, the small charm of ‘Turnips II’. Both capitalise on the space they are given and both stand as equals in Saab’s creative imaginary.

Michael Reid Southern Highlands is delighted to welcome Ray Monde to the upstairs gallery with The River.

It’s the simple joy of a river in summer that Ray Monde captures in these new works which thread a connection along the Shoalhaven River between Riverbend, Ray Monde’s home and studio, to Riversdale, part of Arthur Boyd’s estate at Bundanon.

Ray Monde is renowned for his collage technique called ‘ghostworking’ where he overpaints paper from magazines allowing the print to ‘ghost’ through the paint, adding depth and complexity to his work.

This Special Release brings together four new still lifes by Angie de Latour, featuring hellebores, nasturtiums, violets and cactus. Each plant is placed in a vessel that respects its organic form, allowing the flowers and stems to settle into attitudes that echo their natural environments.

De Latour is a Melbourne-based painter whose practice now centres on the still life. “The process of choosing and arranging objects to paint has a pace of its own,” she notes. “It has become a ritual—constant, unpredictable, but increasingly synchronistic.” These works capture that rhythm with clarity and restraint, offering quiet studies of presence and poise.

As an artist, Bethany Saab is an exception to the general order of things. She is someone who’s built a broad following and achieved great critical success without the formative advantage of formal training. She now reaps the fruits of this tireless, independent work. Her still life paintings of fine white china, summery floral blooms and bright fruits are enthusiastically collected and frequently in demand.

Saab’s latest venture is Still Life, Blue Sky now on show at Michael Reid Southern Highlands. Not one to corner herself into a safe creative pattern, the artist introduces two exciting new elements to her repertoire: acrylic collage and trompe l’oeil.

We find, for the first time, painted hands in various poses and false frames that are natively set in amongst her assortment of objects. If one already felt they were taking an implied ‘seat’ at her painted tables, these new works jump outwards from the canvas deliberately and boldly.

Bethany Saab is an artist that succeeds in both small and large scale. Take note of the grandeur of ‘Child’s Love’, and, less than a quarter of its size, the small charm of ‘Turnips II’. Both capitalise on the space they are given and both stand as equals in Saab’s creative imaginary.

As an artist, Bethany Saab is an exception to the general order of things. She is someone who’s built a broad following and achieved great critical success without the formative advantage of formal training. She now reaps the fruits of this tireless, independent work. Her still life paintings of fine white china, summery floral blooms and bright fruits are enthusiastically collected and frequently in demand.

Saab’s latest venture is Still Life, Blue Sky now on show at Michael Reid Southern Highlands. Not one to corner herself into a safe creative pattern, the artist introduces two exciting new elements to her repertoire: acrylic collage and trompe l’oeil.

We find, for the first time, painted hands in various poses and false frames that are natively set in amongst her assortment of objects. If one already felt they were taking an implied ‘seat’ at her painted tables, these new works jump outwards from the canvas deliberately and boldly.

Bethany Saab is an artist that succeeds in both small and large scale. Take note of the grandeur of ‘Child’s Love’, and, less than a quarter of its size, the small charm of ‘Turnips II’. Both capitalise on the space they are given and both stand as equals in Saab’s creative imaginary.

Michael Reid Southern Highlands is proud to present Painting Now. Berrima is the third and final destination for this touring group exhibition, having first debuted at our Sydney and Art Bar galleries.

Painting Now gathers some of the most exciting new and established voices working with painted form. From Belem Lett‘s masterfully composed abstract works on aluminium, to the small but impactful paintings of Arash Chehelnabi (a recent NAS graduate and a feature artist in NAS’s Sydney Art Fair booth) Painting Now is a rich and impressive grouping.

It is the first time that many of those included have ever been exhibited in the ‘Highlands and regional NSW in general.

Painting Now includes works by Belem Lett, Jedda-Daisy Culley, Chris Dolman, Arash Chehelnabi, Bundit Puangthong, Gavin Lynch, Robert Malherbe, Marc Etherington and Sam Field.

Michael Reid Southern Highlands is proud to present Painting Now. Berrima is the third and final destination for this touring group exhibition, having first debuted at our Sydney and Art Bar galleries.

Painting Now gathers some of the most exciting new and established voices working with painted form. From Belem Lett‘s masterfully composed abstract works on aluminium, to the small but impactful paintings of Arash Chehelnabi (a recent NAS graduate and a feature artist in NAS’s Sydney Art Fair booth) Painting Now is a rich and impressive grouping.

It is the first time that many of those included have ever been exhibited in the ‘Highlands and regional NSW in general.

Painting Now includes works by Belem Lett, Jedda-Daisy Culley, Chris Dolman, Arash Chehelnabi, Bundit Puangthong, Gavin Lynch, Robert Malherbe, Marc Etherington and Sam Field.

Michael Reid Southern Highlands is proud to present Painting Now. Berrima is the third and final destination for this touring group exhibition, having first debuted at our Sydney and Art Bar galleries.

Painting Now gathers some of the most exciting new and established voices working with painted form. From Belem Lett‘s masterfully composed abstract works on aluminium, to the small but impactful paintings of Arash Chehelnabi (a recent NAS graduate and a feature artist in NAS’s Sydney Art Fair booth) Painting Now is a rich and impressive grouping.

It is the first time that many of those included have ever been exhibited in the ‘Highlands and regional NSW in general.

Painting Now includes works by Belem Lett, Jedda-Daisy Culley, Chris Dolman, Arash Chehelnabi, Bundit Puangthong, Gavin Lynch, Robert Malherbe, Marc Etherington and Sam Field.

Michael Reid Southern Highlands is proud to present Painting Now. Berrima is the third and final destination for this touring group exhibition, having first debuted at our Sydney and Art Bar galleries.

Painting Now gathers some of the most exciting new and established voices working with painted form. From Belem Lett‘s masterfully composed abstract works on aluminium, to the small but impactful paintings of Arash Chehelnabi (a recent NAS graduate and a feature artist in NAS’s Sydney Art Fair booth) Painting Now is a rich and impressive grouping.

It is the first time that many of those included have ever been exhibited in the ‘Highlands and regional NSW in general.

Painting Now includes works by Belem Lett, Jedda-Daisy Culley, Chris Dolman, Arash Chehelnabi, Bundit Puangthong, Gavin Lynch, Robert Malherbe, Marc Etherington and Sam Field.

Michael Reid Southern Highlands is proud to present Painting Now. Berrima is the third and final destination for this touring group exhibition, having first debuted at our Sydney and Art Bar galleries.

Painting Now gathers some of the most exciting new and established voices working with painted form. From Belem Lett‘s masterfully composed abstract works on aluminium, to the small but impactful paintings of Arash Chehelnabi (a recent NAS graduate and a feature artist in NAS’s Sydney Art Fair booth) Painting Now is a rich and impressive grouping.

It is the first time that many of those included have ever been exhibited in the ‘Highlands and regional NSW in general.

Painting Now includes works by Belem Lett, Jedda-Daisy Culley, Chris Dolman, Arash Chehelnabi, Bundit Puangthong, Gavin Lynch, Robert Malherbe, Marc Etherington and Sam Field.