Featured Artist

Salmon Galleries is proud to present The Goulburn Suite by Lawrence Denham.
His words and paintings speak for themselves. Please scroll down for detailed images.

The landscape around the NSW towns of Goulburn and Taralga has been my inspiration for this series, produced over the last eighteen months.

Having grown up on the eastern seaboard of Australia, the completely different landscape and atmosphere of the southern tablelands made a huge impression on me. I was struck by the rounded hills, the pockets of stark vegetation, meandering roads, broad open skies and scenery that has been dramatically altered by human intervention. It is the changing light and colours across the seasons that I have tried to convey in paint.
The Australian landscape has always held a fascination for me. It is the intensity of the light, the colours and diversity of the different landscapes, its vastness, vitality, bleakness and brilliance.

Within my paintings I like to combine and contrast different elements, often positioning forms at the edges of the canvas to suggest a continuation beyond the viewer's range of vision. I try to mirror this contrast in my work by combining opposites in paint effects - transparent and opaque, intense and subdued, blurred and detailed, loose and tight. My goal is for a painting to reveal itself slowly and for it to be a delight each time it is seen.

Painting is always a struggle between what an artist sees and feels and what is finally conveyed. For me, success is measured in whether the painting creates a distinct sense of place.

Lawrence Denham
October 2004

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The Goulburn Suite Click images for more detailed view.
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