Watson

This painting is currently being exhibited in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. It will be available to ship in December 2019. Please reach out the the Bluethumb team if you would like to reserve it.

Meet Shanna Watson. She’s drawn to stormy ocean blues, deep greens and amber. We sat in my living room chatting while I sketched, and when the time came to pose Shanna knew exactly what she wanted to do. You can check her out in the HANDSOME band, playing at Bigsound Festival in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley, Australia. She’s also in a band called S.M. Jenkins and they’ve just put out an Ep! When asked if there are any projects she’d like me to share alongside this portrait, Shanna replied ‘I just like living in my caravan in the bush mostly. Building my little house.’ What a badass.

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Born in America, Sydney-based Kim Leutwyler migrated to Australia in 2012. She works in a variety of media including painting, installation, ceramics, printmedia and drawing. Leutwyler holds concurrent bachelor degrees in Studio and Art History from Arizona State University, and additionally graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a Painting and Drawing degree.Leutwyler's current body of work features paintings exploring notions of beauty, gender and queer identity. She has come to focus on painting as a medium because of its primarily masculine history in the western art canon. Her artwork has been exhibited in multiple galleries and museums throughout Australia and the United States.Some of Leutwyler's recent accolades include being selected as a finalist in the Archibald, Sulman and Black Swan Art Prizes, the Churchie national emerging art prize as well as the Portia Geach Memorial Award.