Landscape Paintings For Sale
Australian Plein air and Studio Landscape Paintings
Landscape Paintings for Sale from the MacDonnell Ranges, Central Australia
The Red Centre holds a unique position in the psyche and mythology of all Australians. These oil paintings invite you to journey with me as I connect with and explore the majesty and extremes of the desert.
Deserts have long been spaces of encounter and challenge, places that seem limitless through which we experience our own physical and metaphysical limits.
In the desert wilderness, we can inhabit solitude and silence, connecting with ourselves, others, nature and the path of dreaming.
At a time of unprecedented focus on what it means to be an Australian inhabiting this land, when the impacts of climate change are being felt across both urban and non-urban communities, where people are experiencing less connection with nature, greater social and physical isolation and increased reliance on technology, these landscape paintings invite a reconsideration of the importance of the Central deserts.
Landscape Paintings for Sale from the Blue Mountains
These are large original landscape paintings available for sale. This series, Falling Upwards, explores the experience of falling to rise, of the relationship between intimacy and ultimacy, the longing of the human spirit to find meaning in suffering and create beauty from grit.
I am reminded of the powerful words of Nelson Mandela: "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Click on the paintings below to see photographic impressions of the artwork installed in a modern Australian home.
Landscape Paintings for Sale from the Warrumbungles and the Blue Mountains
Travelling to Warrumbungle and Wollemi National Parks to paint en plein air was a journey both into and beyond my comfort zone. The natural beauty and majesty of the place were enthralling. I felt joy and contentment on my hikes, watching birds flit and call, noticing the texture of bark, and the colour of rock and lichen.
I felt compelled to create, but surprisingly, after initially painting the astounding rock formations and the views, my attention was drawn elsewhere. I began instead to paint the less distinctive, yet still remarkable - the cloud cascades in the evening sky, the still stands of trees that seemed to beckon me like sentinels.
The Warrumbungle and Blue Mountains artworks below are the landscape paintings still available for sale from this series.
Landscape Paintings for Sale from the Capertee Valley and the Blue Mountains
These landscape paintings depict ancient valleys, still trees, and fleeting moments in nature.
The tiny alla prima sky paintings are painted swiftly to enhance the gestural spontaneity of the mark-making and evoke the constantly changing colours and forms in the sky. These artworks contrast with paintings of dense bushlands, painstakingly developed over weeks, that seem to both resist entry and invite the viewer to become entangled in their deep space. The former act as portals to expansive space, carrying you, the viewer, toward otherworldliness, while the Australian bush landscapes invite you to experience your relationship to the land and the earth. They metaphorically enfold or entice you in a grounded, intimate, and mystical experience.
The plein air paintings in this collection of artworks were made outdoors in various locations around the Blue Mountains and in the Capertee Valley.
They evoke the majesty and grandeur of those places, capturing their primaeval stillness, and the shifting light and colours in sure, rapidly applied brushstrokes.
Landscape Painting for Sale - Glenbrook Lagoon, Blue Mountains
Lagoons are mystical places of tranquillity and transition.
Shifting sands, soft muddy banks, spiky reeds, and fossicking water birds.
They are home to an abundance of creatures, often small and inconspicuous, yet essential to the intricate web of life.
The sweep of water and sky invites us to drift and float, while the trees ground us, both connecting us to the steady pulse of our own heart and the rhythm of our breath.
Landscape Paintings for Sale - Evoking the Elements - Earth, Air, Water, Fire Paintings
These paintings explore and interpret the imagery, energy, and elemental themes of selected piano compositions by composers such as Debussy, Ravel, and Chaminade. Earth, air, fire, and water, and nature’s processes captivate and compel me to paint.
Every day as I walk through the bush in the Lower Blue Mountains, I see beauty, decay, and renewal — the effects of elemental forces. They constantly create change and adaptation. I witness nature seeking equilibrium and balance, and offering metaphors for life.
Trees flooded, nevertheless, reach for the sky; verdant new shoots flourish from a fire-blackened trunk; autumn leaves fall to sustain life — each occurrence seems to express joy, hope, loss, and longing — allegories represented in my paintings.
Many of this series have been sold; however, the paintings below are the artworks that are still available for sale.
