The timed auction ends Thursday August 13th at 8:00pm. Whoever holds the highest bid at the auction closing time wins.
David Campbell
Summer in the South, 2024
Oil paint on board
Height 46 cm x Width 46 cm
Artwork is framed and ready to hang & comes with a certificate of authenticity
Starting Bid: $500
An expressionist oil painting inspired by looking across the Derwent river towards Hobart but could equally apply anywhere in coastal Australia. Thickly applied in the colourist manner, this painting provides scope for the imagination whilst bringing a comforting beauty to the viewer of a beloved part of Tasmania. Blues and greens whirl about from the waters edge up to the stormy sky and beyond. Painted on board gives the painting a solidity, a solid base from which to witness the scene before us.
Artist Bio: David Campbell is a contemporary visual artist living and working in Bermagui on Djiringanj Country of the Yuin Nation. Bermagui is a beautiful seaside community located on the South East Coast of NSW, Australia. David is a painter of landscape and still life.
The coastal environment provides endless inspiration for the landscape work. The process explores the notions of pareidolia and ambiguity within the landscape through colour and form.
The choice of brush or pallet knife is a deliberate one that allows for the element of chance to influence the direction of the painting. It’s the interaction between the tools, the medium and the surface that allows for life in the subject.
The choice to paint Still Life provides an ideal complement to Landscape painting. Painting Still Life creates an opportunity to explore in a consciously constructed formality of objects in space.
The differences between the two genres are both explicit and nuanced and they provoke and extend creative practice in limitless ways.