| Dreamlike landscapes soaked with quiet emotion are the calling card of renowned Tasmanian painter, Paul Gundry. A new addition to the Handmark stable, Paul will be unveiling beautiful oils in the Group Show.
The Australian Tonalist Movement is Paul’s guiding star. Rising to prominence in the early 20th century, the Tonalists embrace silence, subtlety and light: “My practice responds to quiet scenery and capturing all the varying moods with simplicity. This means relying on tone to convey the essence of the image in all its mystery and uncertainty,” Paul explains.
Describing himself as a ‘mid-career artist’, Paul’s work is highly regarded. He has been a Glover Prize finalist on five occasions, and made the final cut in the inaugural Hadley’s Art Prize. Adopting tonalist hallmarks of limited colour palettes and soft edges his landscapes “border between pictorial representation and abstraction.”
Paul captures this beautifully in Summer Fields, a collection of three small oils – just some of his paintings in the Group Show. All depict the same field in the Derwent Valley. We view golden grasses receding into a hazy background as rolling hills disappear over the horizon. Tone and mood outweigh colour and detail: “I respond to the pictorial and tonal possibilities of a landscape. The transient atmospheric shifts that fleetingly evoke a resonant sense of place.” |