Near and Far IX, oil on board, 15 x 30 cm for web.jpg
Near and Far IX, oil on board, 15 x 30 cm for web.jpg

Near and Far IX, 2025, oil on board, 15 x 30 cm

$660.00
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This alla prima landscape painting explores reflection, atmosphere, and the shifting relationship between sky, water, and reflection. It captures a fleeting moment where clouds dissolve across the water’s surface, creating a quiet sense of stillness and spatial ambiguity.

The elongated horizontal format emphasises breadth and calm, while expressive brushwork and softened forms evoke the movement of cloud and reflection. Executed wet-on-wet in a single sitting, the painting retains an immediacy and fluidity that reflects direct engagement with the landscape.

Medium: Oil paint on plywood panel
Size: 15 x 30 cm
Location: Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
Subject: Reflections of trees and reeds beneath a cloudy sky
Colour palette: Phthalo blue, cerulean, indigo, burnt umber

This alla prima landscape painting explores reflection, atmosphere, and the shifting relationship between sky, water, and reflection. It captures a fleeting moment where clouds dissolve across the water’s surface, creating a quiet sense of stillness and spatial ambiguity.

The elongated horizontal format emphasises breadth and calm, while expressive brushwork and softened forms evoke the movement of cloud and reflection. Executed wet-on-wet in a single sitting, the painting retains an immediacy and fluidity that reflects direct engagement with the landscape.

Medium: Oil paint on plywood panel
Size: 15 x 30 cm
Location: Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
Subject: Reflections of trees and reeds beneath a cloudy sky
Colour palette: Phthalo blue, cerulean, indigo, burnt umber

Artwork Specifications

Certification:
This artwork is an original contemporary Australian landscape painting, signed and dated on the back by the artist.

Art Gallery Quality Premium Materials:

  • Art Spectrum and Windsor & Newton oil paints applied over a Matisse Acrylic Gesso

  • Plywood artist’s painting panel

Painting Dimensions:
15 cm (h) x 30 cm (w) x 1 cm (d)

How to Install or Hang Your Painting:
This painting can be hung in most rooms, above furniture or on a smaller wall area, such as in a corridor. As it has areas of both intense and muted colour, it suits a well-lit space in either a traditional or modern home, so that all the subtleties in colour can be appreciated.

The Australian gallery standard recommends hanging a painting so that the mid-point of the artwork (height) is approximately 155 cm from the floor. This may vary depending on ceiling height, interior furniture, or whether it is a space where people will be sitting or standing, such as a living room or dining room. It is advisable to avoid hanging oil paintings in direct sunlight, as UV can damage the pigment, resulting in discolouration.

Framing:
An original oil painting and in a contemporary style is often left unframed when installed in art galleries, public or private collections. This work is currently unframed; however, framing can be arranged by agreement. The artwork is ready to hang on Australian gallery standard D-hooks and wire.