Nature Collaborations 2023

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This show portrays the powerful connection that four artists felt with Nature during the lockdowns in Australia during the recent pandemic. When all was isolated and battened down in the world of human-kind, Nature kept on flourishing, flooding…just going through its seasons and daily rhythms, tidal swells etc.

The four artists in this show have produced works that honour the power of Nature to provide humans with another world beyond the miasma of rules and regulations that enveloped Australian society at that time.

Mixed media works, photos and photo- etchings convey this sense of wonderment and appreciation of Nature. All four artists have exhibited in small artist run galleries and regional galleries throughout Australia and have a dedicated on-going interest in capturing the essence of what Nature is about.

Clarissa has been playing with inks, pencils, charcoal, watercolour and paints ever since she was a child. The Ocean and Faces are her two fascinations. If she is not painting a portrait she is sketching by the sea.

The wish to capture special moments in time and place has inspired Karen Keely's photography and painting over many years.

Anne Williams has always carried a camera with her since she was ten when her father brought her back from Japan a small Olympus sure shot joy. Since then, she has been hooked on the photographic image.

Photos taken of Nature in the World Heritage/ National parks of the Upper Blue Mountains during the lockdown inspired Phoebe Williams to paint and draw these works.