ANGUS DOUGLAS

'Room with a View'

Angus Douglas Exhibition 2014

Road to Paterdale

35 x 96 cm, acrylic on canvas on board

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With a swag of new subject material, Angus Douglas’s latest exhibition takes the artist’s keen eye for landscape and Tasmanian light to new levels. Composed and expansive at once, the paintings draw the viewer in and reward as one explores their depth, texture and shade. We can feel the atmosphere as clouds, sky and mountains frame the perspective. The interiors and urban compositions similarly point to a distant dimension yet bring an immediacy and simplicity.

In the tradition of Tasmanian watercolourists, past and present, imbued with the islands’ unique light, these paintings are thoughtful studies of space and colour. Douglas’s works also pay homage to the tradition of Caligraphic painters whose aim was impressionistic brushwork through gesture and character. The paintings acknowledge the particular ‘back road’ arcadia of the state’s interior, depictions of three different coastlines and the special facades of industrial and urban Launceston.

Drawing on his formative training with Max Angus and Patricia Giles, along with a family background in design, Douglas is building a reputation as a painter of the built environment and wild places, with regular exhibitions and commissioned works. He is renovating an old cottage on the family property ‘Woodhall’, near Perth and has lived in Tasmania since 2001.