LIMITED EDITION PRINTS
Charles BLACKMAN O.B.E. (b.1928; d.2018)
Limited Edition Print A/P 125
Dreaming Alice (1956)
Frame Size 118cm X 90cm
Blackman is considered one of the most important figurative painters in Australia. Spanning painting, drawing, sculpture and tapestry, Blackman’s artistic practice invites us into worlds where anything is possible. Blackman is best known for his Schoolgirl and Alice series and his haunting images of sad girls and women, often absorbed in daydreams, oblivious to reality or detached from their surroundings. He crafted a unique artistic vision exploring the dualities of the human condition: innocence and experience, fantasy and fact, dreams and nightmares, beauty and savagery.
Jeffrey Edson SMART AO
(b.1921; d.2013)
Limited Edition Print 300/499Container Train in Landscape 1983-84
Framed Size: 410 mm x 1950 mm
Jeffrey Smart was born in Adelaide in 1921.
His eloquent paintings of cities and roads evoke the human experience in a contemporary urban environment. His modernist depictions of urban landscapes have been dubbed ‘Smart Country’ by his admirers.
This Limited Edition Print is printed on high quality watercolour paper; Blind embossed with the Artist's Studio Logo; Digitally Signed & numbered below image, Edition of 499.
The original artwork is on display at the 'Arts Centre Melbourne'
Jeffrey Edson SMART AO(b.1921; d.2013)Limited Edition 3/499The plastic tube (1980)
Frame Size 117cm X 91cm
Born in Adelaide in 1921, Jeffrey Smart studied at the SASA from 1937-1941 under Ivor Hele. His initial aspirations of being an architect quickly gave way to a passion for painting. Smart drew on his love of architecture to express his perception of the beauty of a man-made world. His paintings are full of bold colours and perfect symmetry.
This Limited Edition Print is printed on high quality watercolour paper, Signed & numbered below image. Edition of 499.It is framed with White Archival Matboard and Artglass AR70TM which reveals true colours and texture of the art - no green tint or optical distortions. Thanks to its anti-reflective coating, which reduces unwanted reflections to less than 1%.
This Limited Edition Print is printed on high quality watercolour paper, Signed & numbered below image. Edition of 499.It is framed with White Archival Matboard and Artglass AR70TM which reveals true colours and texture of the art - no green tint or optical distortions. Thanks to its anti-reflective coating, which reduces unwanted reflections to less than 1%.
Bruce EARLES
Original
Loopy (2011)
Frame Size 102cm X 93cm
SOLD
Melbourne based artist Bruce Earles was born in 1953.
Embracing the joyfulness of life, the artist evokes a playful yet astute vision of the urban environment where landscape and culture mingle and merge. The visual impact of his work is striking through his use of colour and light in his ongoing celebration of life. As the artist is uplifted by the sheer joy of living, so too are his images: people raise their arms, birds swoop in arches, trees raise their branches to the sky, and dogs wag their tails. Even inanimate objects seem to take on a joyful life of their own. The brilliant hues of his more recent paintings speak of Earles’ continuing exploration of the interplay between paint and canvas.
Auguste Blackman (b.1957)
Original
Friendship (2008)
Frame Size 71.5cm X 102cm
SOLD
Auguste Blackman was born in 1957, the eldest son of artist Charles Blackman and his writer wife Barbara.
He recognised that to emerge from his father’s giant shadow, he had to reinvent himself, learn the basic elements as a foundation to a career, and be judged on his own merits. And so, Auguste gave up substance abuse and studied Fine Art at West Wollongong TAFE, including an extra year of Ceramics.
“My father cast a giant shadow and was a master shadow maker,” Auguste says. “Now I will stand alongside him and cast my own shadow.”
He recognised that to emerge from his father’s giant shadow, he had to reinvent himself, learn the basic elements as a foundation to a career, and be judged on his own merits. And so, Auguste gave up substance abuse and studied Fine Art at West Wollongong TAFE, including an extra year of Ceramics.
“My father cast a giant shadow and was a master shadow maker,” Auguste says. “Now I will stand alongside him and cast my own shadow.”
David James Rellim (b.1986)
Original
Wandering Nomad (2011)
Frame Size 120cm X 120cm
Self-taught Australian artist David Rellim was born in Melbourne in 1986, the youngest of four children. Early personal challenges paved the way for Rellim’s deeply emotional journey through life and his art. His passion for art was ignited at the age of 16 when he first opened a book about Brett Whiteley. Rellim counts his major influences as Brett Whiteley, Van Gogh, Picasso, Francis Bacon, and Robert Prudhoe or (Boinga Bob) with whom Rellim lived for 6 months in his world famous tree-house temple.
“I have also learnt a lot through living with Ben Howe in an artist's warehouse in Brunswick and from Sally Madden, David Milne, Steve Nova, Robin Stewart and other artists located at Swan Street studios where I paint these days. Just being in a creative environment is highly inspiring,” says Rellim.
“I have also learnt a lot through living with Ben Howe in an artist's warehouse in Brunswick and from Sally Madden, David Milne, Steve Nova, Robin Stewart and other artists located at Swan Street studios where I paint these days. Just being in a creative environment is highly inspiring,” says Rellim.
Matthew Simmons (b.1975)
Original
Blister (2007)
Frame Size 79cm X 94cm
Oil on canvas
SOLD
Australian landscape painter Matthew Simmons was born in Traralgon, Victoria in 1975. From 1994 to 1995 he undertook Art and Design studies at Bendigo Regional Institute of TAFE. Simmons attended La Trobe University, Bendigo from 1995, and was awarded his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1997.
Simmons found inspiration for his drawings and paintings in the surrounding landscape of his native northern Victoria. At the core of Simmons’ landscape painting are two fundamentals; the first emanates from the quality of his vision, the second from the harmonious relationship between his artistic responsiveness and the artist’s technical expertise. Simmons removes the outer facade of appearance and draws us in to the spiritual essence of the landscape.
Simmons found inspiration for his drawings and paintings in the surrounding landscape of his native northern Victoria. At the core of Simmons’ landscape painting are two fundamentals; the first emanates from the quality of his vision, the second from the harmonious relationship between his artistic responsiveness and the artist’s technical expertise. Simmons removes the outer facade of appearance and draws us in to the spiritual essence of the landscape.
John Henry OLSEN O.B.E., A.O. (b.1928)
Limited Edition Print 125/250
Five Bells (1963)
Frame Size 106cm X 106cm
SOLD
Olsen is one of the most senior, respected Australian artists. He is greatly influenced and inspired by the Australian landscape. His work shows none of the European concern for scale. Rather, his loosely brushed canvases have no distinguishable fore, middle or background, and they are bought alive with light-filled, scrawly images that at the same time manage to give both a bird’s eye and snake’s eye view. The series Journey into the you beaut country, created after his return to Sydney in the early 1960s, is among his greatest poetical visions of place. Olsen said: “I wanted to really come to terms with the experience of a total landscape. Not like there is the foreground, there is the middle distance and there is the horizon. I wanted that overall feeling of travelling over the landscape. There you can see the dry creek beds, the nervous system… Then you begin to somehow see the wholeness, the essential untidiness.”
Charles Blackman O.B.E
Hand Signed Limited Edition Print 70/125
Schoolgirls in Laneway (1953)
Framed Size: 1070 mm x 930 mm
Charles Raymond Blackman OBE was born in 1928 and died in 2018. He was an Australian painter, noted for the Schoolgirl, Avonsleigh and Alice in Wonderland series of the 1950's. He was a member of the Antipodeans, a group of Melbourne painters that also included Arthur Boyd, David Boyd, John Brack, Robert Dickerson, John Perceval and Clifton Pugh.
It is framed with White Archival 8ply Matboard and Artglass AR70TM which reveals true colours and texture of the art - no green tint or optical distortions. Thanks to its anti-reflective coating, which reduces unwanted reflections to less than 1%.
SOLD
Brett WHITELEY A.O. (b.1939; d.1992) Limited Edition 30/250
Grey Harbour, (1978)
Framed Size: 1050 mm x 1030 mm
Limited Edition Print on high quality watercolour paper; Numbered & Blind embossed with Artist's estate Logo below the image.
It is framed with White Archival 8 ply Matboard and Artglass AR70TM which reveals true colours and texture of the art - no green tint or optical distortions. Thanks to its anti-reflective coating, which reduces unwanted reflections to less than 1%.
SOLD
William McLintock (Lin) ONUS
(b.1948; d.1996)
Limited Edition Print 11/499Morumbeeja Pitoa
(Floods and Moonlight) 1993
Framed Size: 1140 mm x 1120 mm
Contemporary Australian artist Lin Onus was born in 1948 in Melbourne.
Onus created paintings that were not only essentially Australian but also portrayed what it means to be an Aboriginal Australian living in a city.
He was one of the most successful and accessible indigenous artists of his generation, he died prematurely at the age of 47 in 1996.
It is framed with White Archival Matboard and Artglass AR70TM which reveals true colours and texture of the art - no green tint or optical distortions. Thanks to its anti-reflective coating, which reduces unwanted reflections to less than 1%.