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Latest News 2017/2016


CURRENT: 
Finalist in the 2017 Muswellbrook Art Prize, Drawing.
Exhibition details and finalists, here.


44TH MUSWELLBROOK ART PRIZE 2017

Professor Ian Howard, Adjudicator,  comments on a selection of entries. This work demonstrates:
"High drama from the contrast and colours of pastels.
The ability of artist and media to amplify the unfolding drama of the landscape"
 


Work is now available at www.saatchiart.com/rebeccarath
June 2016 Artist in Residence at La Macina di San Cresci, Chianti Italy. I'm returning to the artist oasis that is affectionately known as San Cresci.  Read my 2014 experience on my

August 2016:  'Various Storms and Saints' exhibition Galerie Belimage, Switzerland. Works shown include drawings & paintings from Australia and a recent artist residency at San Cresci, Italy.

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Gouache painting from the other day. View from our top gate looking down the valley. Touching it up a little today but may have pushed it too far. #gouachepainting #huntervalley #needtostop Winter Landscape at Elderslie, Hunter Valley. The sun finally came out today. I'm feeling rather waterlogged after two weeks of rain. #gouachepainting #sketchbook "Hills of Lavender " quick #gouache study of Payne's oil painting. Still learning ...💜 Fifty shades of green! Study of Payne's "San Juan Capistrano". After working on this I think I've mastered green! I'm really enjoying working on these studies & eventually applying to my Hunter landscape. I love Payne's ability to make a grand landscape into something intimate. #gouachepainting #edgarpayne Another copy of Payne's from his book, Composition of Outdoor Painting. The original is called "California Landscape". After painting this I want to go to California! #gouachepainting Gouache painting of Payne's oil painting 'Oak Trees'. I love the colour palette & composition of this work. Rereading his wonderful book this rainy long weekend. #gouachepainting #edgarpayne #weekendreading Ho hum..rainy day and we all have cabin fever. A little #gouachepainting from our back door. Autumn colours in the vineyard. Vineyard autumn colours #softpastel #colourfixpaper view from my #studio window 🍂 I think I'm in love. New Colourfix paper @artspectrum.com.au. #softpastel #pasteldrawing on original rosegrey colourfix paper. The texture picks up my scratchy marks perfectly. Now does it come in a roll 😳🤔🖍 *check it out in "my story" Heaven is a drawer of freshly made @artspectrum.com.au soft pastels. Thanks for having me today. What a dream! A standout painting from yesterday & a subject very close to home 🍇 the brush work,colours & paint texture of this work was exquisite. I heard a tour guide say that Van Gogh worked wet in wet. Hard to believe when you view the work. So many layers of pure colours & definite brush work. Like swimming in a sea of painterly marks. Maybe Van Gogh is the father of buttery paint? "Van Gogh and the Seasons" at National Gallery of Victoria. Beautifully curated exhibition on now. Check it out before it closes...preferably not on a Saturday. Crowds were mental! 🙃 More reading & playing. Pushing the boundaries of seeing. This time Herman Bahr's ideas about the way we see. "And the eye changes its method of seeing according to the relation man assumes. A man views the world according to his attitude towards it." Art in Theory 1900-2000 great book 👍#softpasteldrawing #artspectrum
Another little 20min drawing from yesterday 💁 Evidence of a big struggle. Some days just don't work. After the cold gusty wind, too many flies and a truck load of cattle(literally!), the idea of a warm cuppa helped me concede defeat. Better luck next time @thirsty_palette_art_and_wine 🤞 A quick #drawing from the other day in #mybackyard #huntervalley #enpleinair Lovely day getting back to basics & drawing in the backyard while listening to @talking_with_painters podcast. Great work Maria! Love it. Yippee! Finally got my hands on a copy of Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting. Can't wait to read this over the weekend. #fridaysketchclub