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Kosciuszko to Cape York Exhibition

An exhibition of the recent paintings from Kosciuszko and Cape York will be held at Gundagai's Green Dog Gallery from March 18 to May 1, 2010. This show will include most of paintings shown in Latest Paintings.

2009 Mortimore Prize Finalist

Nth Rams Head Tarn #4 was selected as a finalist for the 2009 Mortimore Prize. The Mortimore Prize is an annual art prize covering landscape, waterscape and still life painting, drawing, and sculpture. The exhibition of the selected artworks opened at St Brigids Church, Brisbane St, Dubbo from Sept 26 to Oct 18, then it moved to Scotts College Bellevue Hill, Sydney from 23-25 Oct, and then to Kiku Arts, Bungendore from Nov 23 to Dec 21.

2009 Briscoe Prize Exhibition, Raglan Gallery

Three paintings were entered into the John Briscoe Memorial Art Awatd at the Raglan Gallery, 9-11 Lambie St, Cooma. Mount Sentinel received an "Highly Commended" award. The other two paintings on exhibition are Podocarp Bones and Serpent in the Garden. The Exhibition closes on Sep 27.

Cape York Trip

A two-week trip from Cairns to Cape York and back in July 2009 has produced numerous potential subject matter for painting. Keep watch on the Latest Paintings for this new work.

"Rainforests - Art's Forgotten Landscape"

Phil's last solo exhibition was at the Mawson Gallery, 63 Wilkins Street, Mawson ACT, from April 8 to May 3, 2009. Prof Peter Kanowski was the guest speaker at the Exhibition Opening.

This exhibition explored aspects of various NSW rainforests. Featured were sub-tropical, warm temperate, cool temperate, and littoral rainforests of mainly northern NSW. These landscapes are characterised by diverse, multi-layered vegetation all completing for survival. In rainforests, your viewpoint is restricted to the foreground due to the high density of vegetation. Rainforest tree trunks, their buttress roots, and the draping sinuosity of lianas all produced fascinating combinations of texture, form and colour.

A gallery of the rainforest paintings on exhibition can be seen here.
Exhibition media release (PDF file, 281KB) can be downloaded here.
Exhibition flyer (PDF file, 701KB) can be downloaded here.

The Mortimore Prize Finalist

Paddys River and Bird's Nest Fern were selected as finalists for the 2008 Mortimore Prize. The Mortimore Prize is an annual art prize covering landscape, waterscape and still life painting, drawing, and sculpture. The exhibition of the selected artworks opened at St Brigids Church, Brisbane St, Dubbo from Oct 25 to Nov 23, and then moved to Scotts College Bellevue Hill, Sydney from 27-30 Nov.

2008 CountryScapes Finalist

Bruxner Park Rainforest #1 was selected as a finalist for the 2008 Country Energy Art Prize for Landscape Painting. The exhibition of the selected paintings was held at Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery from Oct 21 to Nov 30 2008. Then the exhibition moved to the Wentworth Gallery, 17 Bligh St, Sydney from Dec 9-31.

This is the second time a Myopic Landscape painting has been selected as a Country Energy Art Prize finalist. In 2006, Wollemi Pine Refuge #1 was selected.

"Kosciuszko Summer" Exhibition

The "Kosciuszko Summer" Exhibition at Gundagai's Green Dog Gallery from Dec 1 to 22 was very successful with 7 of the 13 painintgs sold during the exhibition. Details about the Green Dog gallery are given in the next box below.

The "Kosciuszko Summer" series of paintings are shown here.
The "Kosciuszko Summer" Exhibition postcard (PDF 191kb) can be downloaded here.

Gundagai's Green Dog Gallery has had selected Myopic Landscape paintings since 2005. Green Dog Gallery is open Thursday to Sunday from 10:30 am to 5:30 pm.

• Address: 147 Sheridan St., Gundagai NSW 2722
• Phone: 02 6944 1479
• Mobile: 0400 373231
• Email: mousebear@optusnet.com.au

A list of the paintings for sale at the Gallery is given here.

Wollemi Pine Paintings

The extraordinary Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis) was only discovered in 1994 by David Noble, an officer with the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service, in an isolated gorge in Wollemi National Park, west of Sydney NSW. Due to its rare conservation status, access to the Wollemi Pine stands has been restricted.

The Botanic Gardens Trust, Sydney photographer, Jaime Plaza, has been one of the few people allowed into the stands as part of continuing monitoring and research programs. In December 2005, Phil gained permission to view Jaime's many photographs and images with the intention of choosing a small number to develop into paintings. You can view a selection of Jaime's images here.

>> Wollemi Pine paintings

Bago-Maragle Sub-alpine Landscapes

The sub-alpine landscapes of the Bago Plateau of southern NSW are part of Phil's local neighbourhood. Bago Plateau has extensive forests of Alpine Ash and Snow Gum in a predominant granite landscape. This area is a continual inspiration so there will many more paintings in this series.

>> Bago-Maragle paintings