House with Giant Gnome

Colin Rowe Fine Art is having a clearing sale in preparation for a studio move. This has meant some drastic reduction in prices of the artworks and represents a great opportunity to add or even start your art collection. All resources used in the production of these artworks are professional materials and they are shipped to you appropriately crated and, at times, ready to hang.

This curious painting was certainly germinated from visits to locations where there have been giant Ned Kelly's, bananas, pineapples and crayfish. There's no doubt that this inversion of scale is fascinating. The last giant thing I recall was a chair in the Dandenongs which when you sat in it made you appear small. This reminds me of the movie, "The Incredible Shrinking Man", a must - see movie if only for the armchair scene.

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Born in Hampshire, England, Colin arrived in Australia in 1971 and found work making chandeliers and later delivering rental televisions. Studying for matriculation over two years at night school he enrolled in Art College at the Preston Institute of Technology in 1975. A number of leading artists taught at PIT and Colin had the opportunity to work in audio with David Tolley, conceptualism with Dom De Clario, with the hard edge painting of Dale Hickey and the large, expressionistic work of Peter Booth, all of who have subtly influenced his own art. Majoring in Sound and Painting Colin left to drive taxis and to teach Art. Failing to heed the advice of a gallery director who told him to consider concentrating on one genre and sticking to it Colin continues to produce figurative paintings and drawings; large, ambient, colourwork and the occasional sculpture, installation and audio work.
About my artwork.
My work is generated from things around me that fit a certain feeling. At times I go looking and find them in places, or in objects and people. Other times I find them in a less active fashion, in sounds or perhaps in dreams or blends of colours. I find making artwork irresistible and enjoy the actual cognition of looking, listening and producing the work. Art is a rich tool, a mechanism that I can use to explore and respond to this curious and strange world where things appear both solidly real and also evasive and elusive.