Paintings
by Meg
Just a few words to say ‘Hello’.
Welcome to my paintings. I am an Australian artist living in north east Victoria in a small country town. I love landscape painting even though this genre is out of fashion in Australia. How do you paint a country that has such varied terrains, colours, mountains and plains? I sketch and paint outside, usually driving up to two hours in many directions to some of my favourite places: the Victorian high plains; local wetlands, state parks and further afield along the cold windy southern coasts of Victoria. We have spent ten years travelling in winter through the outback in the west, centre and northern areas of Red Australia. Some of my work looks at these places too. Lately I have been painting in acrylics rather than oils and experimenting more with watercolors. Our landscapes are changing – getting hotter and dryer – more wildfires in summer and winter storms. But we are also helping to destroy them – cutting down forests, covering cleared land with large solar arrays and always pushing out the boundaries of towns and cities for more houses. Nothing stays the same. The forests know this – they cannot survive our destructive tendencies and will be gone eventually. This is why I paint them in the ‘Red Forest” series: red for the danger and sadness for their inevitable loss. None of my work is for sale, but printed copies are made of some of my works. While paintings have to speak for themselves, I have written brief notes to some, mainly for the benefit of the American and European visitors to this site. I hope you enjoy them MegD
Just a few words to say ‘Hello’.
Welcome to my paintings. I am an Australian artist living in north east Victoria in a small country town. I love landscape painting even though this genre is out of fashion in Australia. How do you paint a country that has such varied terrains, colours, mountains and plains? I sketch and paint outside, usually driving up to two hours in many directions to some of my favourite places: the Victorian high plains; local wetlands, state parks and further afield along the cold windy southern coasts of Victoria. We have spent ten years travelling in winter through the outback in the west, centre and northern areas of Red Australia. Some of my work looks at these places too. Lately I have been painting in acrylics rather than oils and experimenting more with watercolors. Our landscapes are changing – getting hotter and dryer – more wildfires in summer and winter storms. But we are also helping to destroy them – cutting down forests, covering cleared land with large solar arrays and always pushing out the boundaries of towns and cities for more houses. Nothing stays the same. The forests know this – they cannot survive our destructive tendencies and will be gone eventually. This is why I paint them in the ‘Red Forest” series: red for the danger and sadness for their inevitable loss. None of my work is for sale, but printed copies are made of some of my works. While paintings have to speak for themselves, I have written brief notes to some, mainly for the benefit of the American and European visitors to this site. I hope you enjoy them MegD
