"Amber" Collection

"Amber"

New works on canvas

28 June - 18 July 2012

at the Mill Providore and Gallery

Above Stillwater Restaurant

Launceston Tasmania

Inquiries please telephone 0409 535 469
Or email info@angusdouglas.com.au


Scroll down to read the Examiner article about this exhibition

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Paintings in this collection:

1. Stack's Bluff, from Perth 

Acrylic on canvas 23 x 32 cm       SOLD

2. Back Paddock, Perth 

Acrylic on canvas 23 x 32 cm       SOLD

3. Lake Douglas, Central Plateau

Acrylic on canvas 53 x 65 cm       $850
Currently hanging at BRAVE Gallery, Longford

4. Frenchman's Cap Massif

Acrylic on canvas 77 x 176 cm       $2700       SOLD

5. Fingal Valley

Acrylic on canvas 53 x 65 cm       $650

7. Coronation Peak, Frankland Range

Acrylic on canvas 84 x 88 cm       $1900

8. South Esk at Evandale

Acrylic on canvas 64 x 74 cm       $1200

9. Transcendence, Western Arthur Range

Acrylic on canvas 64 x 79 cm       $1400

10. Emily K

Acrylic on canvas 64 x 79 cm       $1500

11. Pantheon (detail)

Acrylic on canvas 46 x 50 cm       $850

12. Bill's Shed, Perth

Acrylic on canvas 84 x 88 cm       SOLD

13. Ridgeback, Southwest Tasmania

Acrylic on canvas 95 x 85 cm       SOLD

14. Rough Country, Western Tasmania

Acrylic on canvas 95 x 85 cm       $1700

15. Track to Federation, Southwest Tasmania

Acrylic on canvas 112 x 107 cm       SOLD

 16. Mt Jerusalem, Central Plateau

Acrylic on canvas 112 x 51 cm       SOLD

18. Glass Ceiling

Acrylic on canvas 90 x 76 cm       $2400
Currently hanging at the IXL Henry Jones Art Hotel, Hunter Street, Hobart.
Inquiries please contact Christine Scott - Tel: 6210 7710

19. Pantheon

Acrylic on canvas 81 x 95 cm       $2100

20. Pelion Plains, Overland Track

Acrylic on canvas       SOLD

21. Lake Oberon, Western Arthur Range

Acrylic on canvas 100 x 91 cm       $1800

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The Examiner, Saturday, June 30, 2012

Text reads:

 Angus Douglas is a man who doesn’t allow himself to be backed into a corner when it comes to his interests.

He’s multi-faceted – a painter, renovator, husband, father of two little boys, a musician, and keen bushwalker, and occasional fisherman, who is preparing to settle into life as a Midlands farmer.

Douglas and his young family are newly arrived in the North from picturesque Dunalley, deciding to move back to Woodhall, the historic property at Perth owned by the Gibson side of his family.

For the past six months he and his wife, Vanessa, have been renovating Rosebank Cottage at Woodhall.

Painting on canvas for this exhibition has been a welcome respite from that hard labour. It has allowed him to revisit and translate memories of bushwalking adventures in Tasmania’s deepest wilderness, its furthest pristine reaches.

Port Davey, Federation Peak, Lake Pedder, Southwest National Park and the Central Plateau all feature in Amber.

Small pastoral landscapes of Evandale and environs are a nod to colonial landscapist John Glover.

Scattered throughout are works that illustrate another great interest – architecture.

“My dad, one of my sisters and an aunt have all been involved in architecture,” says Douglas, who confides that although it’s a close call, he’d pinpoint Pantheon as his favourite work within this latest collection.

Pantheon pays tribute to the built beauty of Hobart’s historic Salamanca Place with Mount Wellington as its backdrop. But then Douglas puts reality in a spin by looking to Europe – Paris and Greece in particular – for architectural punch.

“I’m continually impressed by mountains and architecture – both make me stop, sit down and take in what I see,” says Douglas.

“My wife and I met when we were both guides at Cradle Mountain and what I see when bushwalking has become a narrative in my art.”

Particularly close to his heart is a depiction of Port Davey.

“I was dropped off there from a yacht in 2009 and walked solo, mostly off track, followed my nose.

“I loved it – the rugged beauty of Mount Rugby, walking on sodden heath, through scruffy coastal ti-tree scrub.

“It’s there I became very aware of the Indian red oxide mineral colours within the Tasmanian landscape.”

Douglas may be a self-taught artist, but he has learnt “a great deal” from workshops with Tasmania’s grandfather of watercolour, Max Angus, and Patricia Giles.

“That red oxide colour was part of the palette Max Angus would talk about,” says Douglas.

“It’s also Max and Patricia who have encouraged me to use bigger brushes for freer gestures.

“With Amber I am looking at the landscape using blue and gold principle – the amber gold is very Tasmanian.

“I’ve primed the canvases to let the amber shine through, working to steer away the harshness of blue.

“Ultramarines can jump out and punch the viewer in the face.

“I’ve used blues to give the suggestion of green, almost arriving at green through chance.”

With that, Douglas points to a work depicting the pandani and cloud formations synonymous with his memories of walking the Western Arthurs.

“It’s literally like that, there’s no embellishment,” says Douglas.

By the way, Douglas’ first foray into the Northern arts scene was back in March when his work ‘Wind Vane – Leawuleena’ was selected as a finalist for the 2012 Glover Art Prize.

- Mary Machen  

Opening night at the Mill Providore & Gallery
Exhibition was opened by Daphne Habibis,
Senior Lecturer School of Sociology, University of Tasmania.

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Finalist in the Glover Prize March 2012

Painting entered:

"Wind Vane - Leeawuleena" of Lake St Clair Tasmania   SOLD

More details: www.johnglover.com.au

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