The timed auction ends Thursday July 23rd at 8:00pm. Whoever holds the highest bid at the auction closing time wins.
Linda Schneider
Shaded Path in ElthaM, 2021
Acrylic paint on stretched canvas
Height 61 cm x Width 46 cm
Artwork is stretched and ready to hang & comes with a certificate of authenticity
Starting Bid: $650
Shaded Path in Eltham was inspired by a walk through the bushland behind the Eltham miniature railway with my daughter and young grandchildren. Rather than recording the landscape in detail, the painting explores the shifting patterns of light, water and colour that linger in memory after spending time in the Australian bush. Built with expressive brushwork and layered passages of acrylic, it reflects the quiet pleasure of walking beneath the trees and discovering small moments that are easily overlooked.
Artist Bio: Linda Schneider is a Victorian-based artist whose practice centres on the human figure. Working across acrylic and oil painting, as well as layered charcoal and ink drawings, her process is deliberately iterative, allowing earlier decisions to remain visible within the surface of the work.
Her figures are built through repeated drawing, sanding, erasure, and repainting, creating images that hold a sense of accumulation and quiet tension rather than a fixed or polished finish. Schneider is interested in how restraint, revision, and time shape an image, and how the body can be used as a site for both observation and inward reflection.
Her work has been recognised in major Australian prizes, including being a finalist in the Dobell Drawing Prize.