Dawn Beasley
  • Homepage
  • About
  • Churchill Fellowship
  • Garden of Alchemy
  • Botanically Porcelain
  • Botanically Creative
  • Gallery
    • Symbiosis
    • In The Dry
    • Katherine Prize 2018
    • 7 Skins
    • The Peninsula Diaries
    • Landcombing
    • Visual feast
    • Discarded
    • leaf litter
    • Dinner with DeHeem
    • Darwin Fridge Festival 2010
  • Contact me
Landcombing
This body of work encourages the viewer to reassess their experience of nature through the depiction of objects found within the Northern Territory landscape. Small fragile objects that perhaps would be overlooked amid the distraction of everyday life are ‘landcombed’ from beaches, footpaths, riversides, parks and the gardens of friends and neighbours. Displaced to the studio and placed amid folds of patterned fabric, the work explores multiple contrasts: between natural and man-made, subtle and intense, tone and colour, smooth against rough, plain against pattern.

Building on the childhood delight of taking home shells found on the beach the work exposes the fragility and uniqueness of each found ‘treasure’.  The unique qualities of each individual form are visually explored to create a grown-up appreciation of structural and textural complexities within nature.

Many of the works utilise contemporary textile techniques to imprint line drawings on canvas, sealed beneath clear gesso and selectively over-painted with traditional oil painting techniques. The work explores the relationship between the artist and their subject matter by leaving parts of the early layers of working exposed, resulting in subtle areas of line and tone that tell the story of the works’ creation.

A SMALL HARVEST Oil paint and mixed media on linen 91cm x 91cm $1380
BROKEN SHELL Oil paint and mixed media on canvas 61cm x 91cm SOLD
CROTON LEAVES Oil paint and mixed media on linen 91cm x 91cm SOLD
SHELL Oil paint and mixed media on canvas 102cm x 102cm SOLD
BUSH TUCKER Oil paint and mixed media on linen 102cm x 102cm $1380
BLEACHED CORAL I Oil paint and mixed media on canvas 65cm x 65cm SOLD
SEA URCHIN Oil paint and mixed media on linen 102cm x 102cm SOLD
STELLAR CORAL Oil paint and mixed media on canvas 91cm x 91cm $1380
HIBISCUS Oil paint and mixed media on linen 91cm x 91cm SOLD
FALLEN LEAVES Oil paint and mixed media on canvas 25cm x 152cm SOLD
IMPERFECT ROW Oil paint and mixed media on canvas 122cm x 41cm $950
MAGPIE GOOSE FEATHER Oil paint and mixed media on canvas 40.5cm x 121.5cm $1020
DRIED SEEDWEED Oil paint and mixed media on canvas 65cm x 65cm SOLD
CANNONBALL FLOWER Oil paint and mixed media on linen 91cm x 91cm SOLD
TEXTURAL DETAIL; SEA URCHIN Oil paint and mixed media on canvas 65cm x 65cm SOLD
BLEACHED CORAL II Oil paint and mixed media on canvas 65cm x 65cm $650
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Homepage
  • About
  • Churchill Fellowship
  • Garden of Alchemy
  • Botanically Porcelain
  • Botanically Creative
  • Gallery
    • Symbiosis
    • In The Dry
    • Katherine Prize 2018
    • 7 Skins
    • The Peninsula Diaries
    • Landcombing
    • Visual feast
    • Discarded
    • leaf litter
    • Dinner with DeHeem
    • Darwin Fridge Festival 2010
  • Contact me