ANN GORDON
Ann has been exhibiting her work since 2004 and has been selected as a nationalist in several art prizes, most recently The Gosford Art Prize, Northern beaches Art Prize, The Greenway Art Prize, Waverley Landscape Prize and The Little Things Art Prize. She holds holds a Bachelor of Design Hons (Visual Communications), University of Technology.
She explores the essence of a landscape by making quick drawings and small paintings in her journal (plein air). Initially using automatic and rhythmic drawing to capture the energy of the environment, letting the landscape tell her what to use and how. She then starts to layer with paint and colour, working with ux, alternating layers of mark making and veiling until the balance between the mood and the energy is reached of what it felt like to be connected to that place.
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mixed media and charcoal on canvas
760mm x 760mm
acrylic, mixed media and charcoal on canvas
330mm x 330mm canvas
Medium: Acrylic, mixed media and charcoal on canvas
Size: 61cm x 46cm
Price: $840 incl GST
This artwork currently as a canvas stretched on a wooden frame and is ready to hang.
Casuarina Kingscliff series
This work was created from automatic drawings in my travel journal. I took a small selection of paints, inktense blocks, graphite sticks and charcoal on a surf trip to Casuarina late last year. The surf at Kingscliff became very wild and I wanted to capture the energy left by the wind in the casuarina trees along the walkway to the beach.
Title: Eminence… Mount Canobolas
Medium: Acrylic, mixed media and charcoal on canvas
Size: 61cm x 61cm
Price: $1200 incl GST
This artwork currently as a canvas stretched on a wooden frame and is ready to hang.
Mount Canobolas Series
These works were inspired from smaller plein air works in my journal. Earlier this year I visited Mount Canobolas, near Orange in the central west of NSW. Two years ago the area was effected by a fire that blazed for 4 days. It is beautiful in its recovery.
I used charcoal in this painting to express the strong graphic nature of the charred trees and debris left from the fires, this works in contrast with the soft greens and greys of the regenerating bush and the pink orange of the earth. I used pencil and inktense blocks to add the energy of the new growth.
acrylic, mixed media and charcoal on canvas
380mm x 230mm
Medium: Acrylic, mixed media and charcoal on wooden panel
Size: 30cm x 30cm
Price: $390 incl GST
This work is currently as a panel on a wood frame and is ready to hang.
Blue Pools... Mount Aspiring National Park, NZ
This work was created from the works in my travel journal that I took to New Zealand last year. I travelled in a van around the South Island capturing the colours and gestures of the landscape. Through automatic drawing and layering of paint I wanted to record the unique landscape of the Makarora River. A mature beech and podocarp forest surrounds the pure glacial water gathered from the mountains. The grinding from the movement of the ice of the glacier creates a rock flour that gives the water it’s incredible blue.