Light in the Landscape
Contemporary artists discuss their personal relationship with the natural world and their interpretations of it through paint.
by John O’Hern
“… In Aftermath, Peter Sculthorpe paints the threatening sea as it begins to calm down after a violent storm. In the darkness of the cloudy day the white foam of the waves seems to generate its own light.
Aftermath depicts a scene that has been repeated for millennia. Sculthorpe explains, ‘I’m not a blue sky painter.’ The soft light of this painting attests to that. ‘The subject takes precedence,’ he explains. ‘The atmosphere is secondary.”
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