Three of the Fleurieu’s most well know established contemporary artists Margie Hooper, Peter McLachlan and Linda Forrester joined forces to present Traversing Terrain - Navigating landscapes of the Fleurieu.
Unfortunately this exhibition was closed due to COVID-19.
Artist Profiles
Margie Hooper
Picasso wrote, “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary”.
And so it is with my pieces here in the Coral Street Art Space.
This works spans a period of twelve years, from 2008 to 2020. It was made between larger solo projects, and reflects a recurring urge to explore my lived terrain. With a small sketchbook in hand, I prefer to draw my feelings around what I see in the landscape, and then use these references as guidelines to make paintings.
The space is usually intimate, more like being in a room with windows. There are no sweeping vistas, no timeless horizons, and yet, I hope, there is an opportunity to imagine what may exist beyond the picture plane
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Left - Travesty, Margie Hooper
Linda Forrester
I see the creation of a work of art as the bringing about of a new combination of pre-existing elements in the chosen medium, drawing with graphite and pastels or painting with inks or oils.
All the works on show here are a result of being outside, immersed in the environment I want to depict. I don’t draw the actual scene but the basic shapes within the scene. Back in the studio I then play with these shapes and different media to impart the feeling I got from these places.
Sometimes I meet with more success than others. That’s the way it goes when I create artworks by the seat of my pants, so to speak; when I approach a work more from feeling than from the actual scene.
Left - Rocks and Sea, Green Bay, Port Elliott, Linda Forrester
Peter McLachlan
These recent works combine real and imagined views within the landscape. Capturing spirit of place with an emphasis on space, isolation, storytelling and wonder.
“Standing in the rainforest
Looking from the mountain top
Overlooking Metropolis
These are my subjects”
Peter McLachlan
Left - My Dreaming, Peter McLachlan
Exhibition Photos
