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18 August 2013

Pilbarra series

Very exciting to get this slim volume in the post - ordered from the National Gallery of Victoria -
A new edition of the 2002 publication. I saw the paintings round the walls of a big room in the gallery in 2005 - perhaps they have grown bigger in my memory, but 1.5m x 1.8m is quite big enough to be impressive. The oils were painted in 1981, but he first went to the area in 1979 to paint a series of gouaches. The book includes excerpts from his diaries at the time, and photos of him painting.
As for the colours - it's about the way the colours work together, those vivid bright dots...

Some sample pages -

I've written before about Fred Williams and my connection with his art, so I'm looking forward to reading about this series of work.
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2 comments:

  1. Jane Housham18 August 2013 at 10:17

    I've just tracked back through your earlier posts about this artist. Very interesting. I'd love to see those landscapes (in Australia). Interesting art too.

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  2. Dijanne Cevaal19 August 2013 at 08:36

    Ahh one of my favourites.... The Pilbarra series is magic , such presence, such energy. They had a Retropsective last year which also had a fantastic catalogue but only a few of the Pilbarra- my next project I have to do is go up to those You Yangs( they are after all, only a stone's throw away)- it was where fred Williams to that extraordinary leap into abstracting the landscape.

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