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Study
in a progressive Art School (Phillip Institute
of Technology, Preston, Victoria) with lecturers
Peter Booth and Dale Hickey, established the
foundation for developing an open interpretation
of landscape. As a landscape painter enjoying
the privilege of living in the Spotted Gum forests
of the South Coast I waken every day to an atmosphere
filled with strong light, shapes and sounds
that never cease to inspire. I try to capture
these atmospheres in my paintings attempting
to place the viewer within the intimacy of the
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At
fifty-five years of age, I now choose to concentrate
on my paintings, and relished the opportunity
during August 2005 to successfully exhibit for
the first time in Sydney at the Bondi Pavilion
Community and Cultural Centre Gallery. |
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| My
name is Peter Williams, an Australian artist
having drawn and painted since I was a small
boy. I completed my formal art training in Melbourne
in the 70's and taught art for five years in
High Schools. I live at Mogo, an historical
village on the South Coast of N.S.W. just south
of Batemans Bay. In Mogo's 100 year old St.
Mary's Catholic Church in 1980 my wife and I
established a gallery selling my own pottery
and paintings. |
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My
use of colour and lots of it, has allowed me
to paint with a bold scale and expression capturing
a `slice' of the landscape rather than large
sweeping vistas. The influence of the French
Impressionist painters together with Australian
painters such as Fred Williams, Lloyd Reese,
William Robertson and Brett Whitely has encouraged
my style of painting. My attitude to colour
is that if it is there in your collection of
paints, try and find some way of using it, celebrate
its power and joy. |
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