River Bend

Hi.

I like to draw and paint imaginary scenes in my landscape work. They are usually influenced by places I have been and things I have seen but the end result is not usually a true interpretation of a particular view.

Peaceful scenes and calming places of beauty are my inspiration. When I feel that I can imagine myself in that place, I am happy that the work is then finished and ready to be viewed by others.

I have an eternal fascination with light: the effects with various pigments, the source and colour of the light, and the way in which it falls on various subjects. I often use stark tonal values, enhancing space, depth and the illusion of the 3 dimensional within a two dimensional plane.

I want the viewer to enter the space within the art, creating their own personal journey and dialogue. I love to create a sense of mood or memory, a feeling or emotion that captures a moment.

My hope is that my works speak to you in your own unique way.

The fully framed size of this piece is 28.5cm x 36cm or 11.2" x 14.2" .

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Australian artist Bronwyn Woodley Graham has had her works exhibited broadly throughout
Australia and internationally in the UK and Europe. Her works have been featured in various
publications and are held in public and private collections in Australia, Hong Kong, the UK and the
USA

Oils are Bronwyn’s most loved medium and she originally trained in the classical style of the old
masters. Her creative career began as a sign writer, then as a graphic artist in her younger years
and transformed to fine art around 2001.

Bronwyn’s landscapes are predominately semi-abstract in style and invoke the viewer to respond
to her unique interpretation. Her work invites a sense of mood or memory, a feeling or emotion that
captures a moment. Often painted from her own imagination her paintings have been described as
dramatic, ethereal and emotive, with comparisons being drawn with that of the renowned english
artist J W Turner.

Bronwyn’s paintings bring a unique interpretation of place that so generously lends so much of it to
the viewer. She allows enough space in her paintings for each of us to imagine our own story
within. In a way, she develops the space to a point in which the viewer is beckoned into the scene
and then set free to explore and create their own personal journey.

“My painting is an emotional response to my surroundings and the images I store within. I often
paint imaginary scenes, inspired by nature but allowing the painting to take me on a tour of
discovery that can end far from where my original concept began”

“Pushing the boundaries between the real and imagined has become an attachment for me. Most
of my recent work is an exploration of this. It has become a journey towards a destination or place
that I am at home with. Neither true, nor false, but something I have fallen in love with along the
way. The landscape leaves me with an indescribable urge to explore it in all its achievements.”

Bronwyn works from her studio in Balmain, Sydney from where she paints and teaches a selective
number of students each week.