Exhibition Celebration: Anna Mackrell – A Well Structured Nature
Event description
Join Benalla Art Gallery and artist Anna Mackrell for the launch of A Well Structured Nature.
A Well Structured Nature presents a retrospective of expressive landscape and flower paintings inspired by the region that Anna loves. In the quiet Strathbogie Ranges in Victoria’s north-east, neatly planted pine trees define the edges of paddocks and the curve of the hills. The sky and clouds expand, creating space and light over the land marked by patches of granite and grazing sheep and cattle. “My paintings are always better when I’m in Bogie” Anna explains.
Place and belonging, mood, colour, tone and light are key concepts and elements in Anna’s practice which is informed by a broader aim to explore multiple ways of representing the stillness, isolation and ‘slow beauty’ of the rural Australian landscape and life. In her still life paintings, Anna works quickly to capture short-lived blooms before engaging in a longer process of working from intuition, memory and photographs. The works emerge from continual experimentation with colours, shapes and forms, and Anna’s love of gardens and natural life.
Price: This is a FREE event
Anna MACKRELL
Cattle Yards [detail] 2008
oil on canvas
76 x 76 cm
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