Life By The River (Framed)

Over the last few months as I've explored landscape painting more i've developed an interest in water, I like capturing the way it moves through our environment, the shapes, lines and colours it creates. This landscape is inspired by the spaces around the Hawkesbury and Nepean rivers near me. I see the river as a sort of strange ribbon or an artery that brings life with it. I hope to paint more landscapes like this, I want to explore more of the way rivers flow through Australia.

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I find that my art enables me to express elements of my world that can't necessarily be seen by the naked eye, its an attempt at conveying something a bit intangible. Abstraction is the primary way I communicate my ideas and experiences in art.
The naive and somewhat primitive lines, shapes, colours and textures I use are my attempt at capturing the atmosphere, personality or feeling of a place or person I have encountered in my life, realism or a photograph in my opinion doesn't always capture these elements of the world.
I feel that my art brings these to the surface...it shows the soul of something, somewhere, or someone. Perhaps you will see someone you know within my strange works, maybe even yourself.