Over Home, painted in 2009 depicts clouds and sky above a suburban street. Roof tops, tree tops and tv aerials are overshadowed by a large billowing cloud whose top catches the last light. This painting is part of the Grey Paintings Series and is inscribed with the words ‘easy does it’. Resisting simple interpretations or encouraging them? What is the artist intention? The piece invites meditation on life, family and notions of home and desire for belonging or perhaps simply, awe of nature.
About the Grey Painting collection:
Primarily painted in the summer between 2008-2009. The series consists of un-exhibited work in the artist’s private collection which explore O’Sullivan’s experience with debilitating, clinical melancholia. The Grey series consists of acrylic paintings made using a wet in wet technique that requires immediate execution of the painting in a race against the clock to beat Sydney, Australia’s sweltering summer temperatures