Acrylic Paintings
An online portfolio/ gallery of Australian Landscape Paintings and Portraits in acrylics by Graham Austin
Most paintings are for sale, for price list email Graham Austin: austin_artist@optusnet.com.au
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Graham Austin: Acrylic Paintings
"I do not necessarily excel at what others do but at times, I do excell at what I do"
- Graham Austin
Graham Austin's painting style in acrylics is divisionist, having a resemblance and parallel to pointillism.
His style is often interpreted as a bridging of aboriginal and western art but particularly, he attempts to capture the spirit of the Australian landscape.
His spotted patterns of complimentary colours dance adjacently, creating a kinetic abstraction when viewed close up.
From a distance the cacophony of spots fuse into statements of Australian landscape, giving his work its inspired individuality.
His acrylics offer textured movement of size-varied marks melting into topographical form.
Some may offhandedly presume Graham is imitating the pointillists of french
impressionism. Whilst some of his work may appear relative, it has never been
his intention.
His spotted marks are derived from the Australian landscape, particularly the Kimberley region in the northwest.
Usually, his spotted textures are the indication of his style difference and bear a strong sense of the landscape spirit.
Similarly, aboriginal art is often constructed with a form of pointillism generated on design format.
Graham acknowledges their interpretation and salutes a connection in his own work whilst generating an individual style extracted from the
landscape patterns, rhythms and textures observed from an aerial perspective.
The liberal sprinkling of trees, rocks and shrubs across the outback, intermingled with river courses,
mountain forms and shadows demand an acute awareness of spotted textures.
His process and stages of development when creating an artwork are mostly
cerebral,
working directly from his brain straight to the painting surface.
He rarely does preliminary sketches. He likes to visualise the subject in his mind and then paint direct.
This approach gives flexibility and was developed from the fluidity involved when working in watercolour.
Interpreting his work in a shallow scientific sense, some may feel he delivers
an expansive view
segregated into a collective of atoms, objectively creating that visual fusion, blending colours and spotted shapes to interpret the landscape.
The repetitive watery spots on dots generate a visual texture. An optical illusion of subject evolves when the
picture surface shuffles itself into an orchestrated fusion of logic and order, just as nature with the infinite multitude of atoms.
Acrylics, Oils and Watercolour Paintings
Other Website Links of Interest:
Australian Watercolour Institute www.awi.com.au
artsConnect: Australian Artists www.artsconnect.com.au
Taylor Galleries www.taylorgalleries.net.au
Greenhill Galleries Adelaide www.greenhillgalleriesadelaide.com.au
Galeria Aniela www.galeriaaniela.com.au
Rushcutters Bay Gallery www.bevin@rbgallery.com
Electronic Cottage Art & Craft Gallery www.electroniccottage.com
Juried Online Art Festival www.jolaf.com
Online art galleries of modern paintings by artist Susan Leask www.slgalleries.com
Indigo Art www.indigoart.com.au
Brian Dunlop www.briandunlop.com
John Caldwell www.waragilstudios.com.au
Bernd Heinrich www.berndheinrich.com
Roger Murphy www.rogermurphy.com.au
Guy Troughton www.guytroughton.com
Robert Wade www.ozemail.com.au/~rawadw
Sculptr.com www.sculptr.com/
Wendy Bookatz www.wendybookatz.com
Saatchi-gallery www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/
Artarmon Art Gallery www.artarmongalleries.com.au
Christchurch
Art Gallery New Zealand www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz
Gosford Art Gallery www.gosfordregionalgallery.com
Greythorn Art Gallery www.greythorngalleries.com.au
HotFrog
Australian Business Directory www.hotfrog.com.au
Mosman Art Gallery tst.mosman.nsw.gov.au/mosman/culture/art-gallery
MyArtHost www.myarthost.com
Port Macquarie Art Gallery www.portmacquarieregionalgallery.com.au
Taree Art Gallery www.gtcc.nsw.gov.au/webcomm/mrag/index.php
Wagner Art Gallery www.wagnerartgallery.com.au
Wollongong Art Gallery www.wollongongcitygallery.com
Christchurch Art Gallery New Zealand www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz
David Rex-Livingston Art Dealer www.rex-livingston.com
Galeria Aniela Fine Art Gallery www.galeriaaniela.com.au
Peter Pinson Gallery www.peterpinsongallery.com
Royal Art Society www.royalart.com.au
Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour www.rsw.org.uk/
Royal Watercolour Society www.royalwatercoloursociety.co.uk/
Saatchi Gallery Britain www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk
Ulster Watercolour Society www.uws.org.uk
