There is great power in simplicity, and with an economy of stroke so much can be said of the landscape Stacey Mrmacovski conjures. Based in Melbourne/Wurundjeri, Mrmacovski is inspired by the colours and lighting of the Australian landscape, and her works are purely emotive depictions influenced by both impressionism and expressionism.

“With my latest work, I am inspired by memories and scenes from my own life amongst landscapes that coloured the fleeting moments of happiness, beauty, and harmony. Memories that I can’t get back, but I can revisit through paint. These landscapes are a fusion of places and memories and join together into one scene. As an artist, my hope is that through my artwork the viewer can turn each stroke of paint alive and be guided to a place of memory or dream, where they can revisit anytime they choose.”

Steve Tyerman paints the places with which he is most familiar – the landscapes surrounding his home in the  hinterland of the Gold Coast, as well as the coastal areas of SE Queensland and far northern NSW. Using rich impasto technique, his paintings are an attempt to create a synthesis of his visual sensations and lived experiences, and reflect the artist’s emotional responses to these places tempered by his keen interest in gardening, wildlife, literature and the natural world.

As a means of countering the ubiquity of the cropped and filtered digital image, Tyerman seeks to portray the perspective of viewing with ‘two eyes’ – looking up and down,  adjusting the focus to near and far, and peripheral vision. The human experience of the brain combining all our other senses, memories, expectations, fears, preferences, preconceived ideas and other thought processes to create every lived moment is what he hopes to render in his paintings.

“I’m interested in the passage of time through the landscape, the changing light conditions, the journey of water, the flora and fauna that are so crucial to the environment, the life cycle of plants, our human presence, symbiotic relationships and the connectedness of all these elements in a beautiful and complex ecosystem”.

There is great power in simplicity, and with an economy of stroke so much can be said of the landscape Stacey Mrmacovski conjures. Based in Melbourne/Wurundjeri, Mrmacovski is inspired by the colours and lighting of the Australian landscape, and her works are purely emotive depictions influenced by both impressionism and expressionism.

“With my latest work, I am inspired by memories and scenes from my own life amongst landscapes that coloured the fleeting moments of happiness, beauty, and harmony. Memories that I can’t get back, but I can revisit through paint. These landscapes are a fusion of places and memories and join together into one scene. As an artist, my hope is that through my artwork the viewer can turn each stroke of paint alive and be guided to a place of memory or dream, where they can revisit anytime they choose.”

For her latest body of work FARMS, Neridah Stockley introduces us to her new world and the surrounding landscapes of her home and studio in lutruwita/Tasmania.

Of the assemblage of nine works included in FARMS Stockley says “My work is essentially about relationship to place.  I recently moved to a regional area in lutruwita (Tasmania) where my home is surrounded by farms, coast and hills.”

Stockley trained at the National Art School in Sydney graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2001.  Her work is held in the collections of Artbank, Parliament House Canberra, Macquarie Group, Newcastle Art Gallery and Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.  Neridah has been represented in numerous Art Awards including; Gurguis New Art Prize, Hazelhurst Works on Paper, The Glover Prize, The Alice Prize and Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize.   ‘A Secular View’ a solo survey exhibition toured nationally in 2021 and 2022.

There is great power in simplicity, and with an economy of stroke so much can be said of the landscape Stacey Mrmacovski conjures. Based in Melbourne/Wurundjeri, Mrmacovski is inspired by the colours and lighting of the Australian landscape, and her works are purely emotive depictions influenced by both impressionism and expressionism.

“With my latest work, I am inspired by memories and scenes from my own life amongst landscapes that coloured the fleeting moments of happiness, beauty, and harmony. Memories that I can’t get back, but I can revisit through paint. These landscapes are a fusion of places and memories and join together into one scene. As an artist, my hope is that through my artwork the viewer can turn each stroke of paint alive and be guided to a place of memory or dream, where they can revisit anytime they choose.”

There is great power in simplicity, and with an economy of stroke so much can be said of the landscape Stacey Mrmacovski conjures. Based in Melbourne/Wurundjeri, Mrmacovski is inspired by the colours and lighting of the Australian landscape, and her works are purely emotive depictions influenced by both impressionism and expressionism.

“With my latest work, I am inspired by memories and scenes from my own life amongst landscapes that coloured the fleeting moments of happiness, beauty, and harmony. Memories that I can’t get back, but I can revisit through paint. These landscapes are a fusion of places and memories and join together into one scene. As an artist, my hope is that through my artwork the viewer can turn each stroke of paint alive and be guided to a place of memory or dream, where they can revisit anytime they choose.”

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.

For this Special Release we bring you a selection of four works by still life painter Angie de Latour. Featuring hellebores, nasturtiums, violets & cactus: each flora specimen is displayed in a vessel that allows the botanic to retain its organic form & in a pose that represents its natural habitat.

Angie is a Melbourne-based artist. Although she has worked across a range of genres, the still life has become the main focus of her painting practice. She says “the process of choosing and arranging objects to paint has a pace of its own and has become a ritual which is constant, unpredictable but increasingly synchronistic.”

For her latest body of work FARMS, Neridah Stockley introduces us to her new world and the surrounding landscapes of her home and studio in lutruwita/Tasmania.

Of the assemblage of nine works included in FARMS Stockley says “My work is essentially about relationship to place.  I recently moved to a regional area in lutruwita (Tasmania) where my home is surrounded by farms, coast and hills.”

Stockley trained at the National Art School in Sydney graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2001.  Her work is held in the collections of Artbank, Parliament House Canberra, Macquarie Group, Newcastle Art Gallery and Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.  Neridah has been represented in numerous Art Awards including; Gurguis New Art Prize, Hazelhurst Works on Paper, The Glover Prize, The Alice Prize and Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize.   ‘A Secular View’ a solo survey exhibition toured nationally in 2021 and 2022.

There is great power in simplicity, and with an economy of stroke so much can be said of the landscape Stacey Mrmacovski conjures. Based in Melbourne/Wurundjeri, Mrmacovski is inspired by the colours and lighting of the Australian landscape, and her works are purely emotive depictions influenced by both impressionism and expressionism.

“With my latest work, I am inspired by memories and scenes from my own life amongst landscapes that coloured the fleeting moments of happiness, beauty, and harmony. Memories that I can’t get back, but I can revisit through paint. These landscapes are a fusion of places and memories and join together into one scene. As an artist, my hope is that through my artwork the viewer can turn each stroke of paint alive and be guided to a place of memory or dream, where they can revisit anytime they choose.”