PONTOON

Finally the rain arrives after 10 long years of severe drought, a thankful joyous rain creating incredible atmosphere with strange aromas pervading our land.
Once begun it didn’t stop, now invading our sacred spaces creating torrents, isolation and some devastation, repaired in time by natures natural process and human endeavour.
In PONTOON the inhabitants gaze in awe and ponder the inundation of their surrounds. Their hope and recovery is expressed through areas of emotive colour.
This work was selected as a finalist in the Scope Galleries Art Awards 2014, Warrnambool, Vic . it has not been shown since having stayed in my collection.
My works consist of a slow process of layering mixed media and text, a reference to our many layers of history.

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BIO
Chris is a full time mixed media artist, with a BA Fine Arts (Painting) and has been exhibiting widely in solo, selected and group shows since 1985. Chris has won several awards, the most recent being -2023 WINNER Linden Postcard Show, The Nina Taylor Birthday Card Award and previously: 2017 RUNNER UP ANL Maritime Art Award 2016 WINNER (Dreamscape) Drawing Category Daylesford Art Show, Vic -Judge Victor Rubin, renowned Australian artist. 2015 WINNER (Life Series Vignettes 2014 "FAMILY") Lost In Sculpture, Indoor Award, Dunkeld, Vic - Judge Kirsten Paisley, Deputy Director, NGV Her 2016 solo "CONNECTIONS IN UNKNOWN SPACES" received widespread acclaim.