S17E06 -Graham Austin OAM
- 6 years ago
Graham Austin OAM work has been subconsciously influenced from his first time in the air.
It was a seaplane joy flight whilst on holidays down the south coast of NSW as a seven year old. The images were quite astounding and something he would never forget.
He saw the landscape made up with spots, dots and dashes. Rolling surf looked like cotton wool rolled into stringy strips. Trees were spots, there was a sense of primitive design to the landscape.
Graham Austin OAM was caught up in the youthful exuberance of taking off from a small lake, experiencing the giddy excitement of a first time adventure in the air, absorbed in wonderment and then thrilled with the pilot’s skill in landing the craft back onto the small lake.
On one of his flights we witnessed a misjudgement where the pilot overshot the lake whilst landing and slid from the water up onto the sand.
Unsurpassed excitement for Graham as a child but also with a sense of relief it didn’t happen on his flight.
In later years, driving around Oberon in the Blue Mountains and looking down into the valley, his childhood flight experience was rekindled.
Graham Austin OAM started painting elevated views and discovered working from photographs was generally quite inhibiting.
The camera doesn’t capture the soul of the landscape and it ignores that emanating spirit whereas, memory and imagination does.
That same spirit emerges from his work when he paints according to the logic of the landscape and in particular, his emotional feel of the landscape’s creation.
Graham feels he has to understand how the ground surface is washed and blown by nature, creating the earth’s wrinkles and suggesting its subjective, emotional response.
In Graham Austin OAM's case, by incorporating a gallimaufry of spots with a sense of organised chaos.
Oddly enough, when spots are not placed in the right places the picture looks incredibly wrong, the rules of perspective cannot be ignored.
The main influences on Graham Austin OAM as an artist now are the marvellous effects of aerial landscape and the sense of spirit emanating from the landscape patterns, that conjointly, emanates from the spirit.
Graham Austin OAM paint in spots, in a style akin to the pointillists but he is more interested in creating a spotted abstraction on close inspection, that fuses into reality when viewed from a distance.
The main themes and subjects of his artworks are mostly the abstracted creation of landscape where water and wind carve the design, sculpting the moving surface.
He likes the sense of rocks and trees becoming spots, sometimes standing alone and sometimes gathering in groups just like people, intermingling in life and becoming a tide of movement, a current of aerially viewed patterns juxtaposed in perspective.
You can contact the artist about their art tips or art techniques directly via their website at grahamaustin.com.au
It was a seaplane joy flight whilst on holidays down the south coast of NSW as a seven year old. The images were quite astounding and something he would never forget.
He saw the landscape made up with spots, dots and dashes. Rolling surf looked like cotton wool rolled into stringy strips. Trees were spots, there was a sense of primitive design to the landscape.
Graham Austin OAM was caught up in the youthful exuberance of taking off from a small lake, experiencing the giddy excitement of a first time adventure in the air, absorbed in wonderment and then thrilled with the pilot’s skill in landing the craft back onto the small lake.
On one of his flights we witnessed a misjudgement where the pilot overshot the lake whilst landing and slid from the water up onto the sand.
Unsurpassed excitement for Graham as a child but also with a sense of relief it didn’t happen on his flight.
In later years, driving around Oberon in the Blue Mountains and looking down into the valley, his childhood flight experience was rekindled.
Graham Austin OAM started painting elevated views and discovered working from photographs was generally quite inhibiting.
The camera doesn’t capture the soul of the landscape and it ignores that emanating spirit whereas, memory and imagination does.
That same spirit emerges from his work when he paints according to the logic of the landscape and in particular, his emotional feel of the landscape’s creation.
Graham feels he has to understand how the ground surface is washed and blown by nature, creating the earth’s wrinkles and suggesting its subjective, emotional response.
In Graham Austin OAM's case, by incorporating a gallimaufry of spots with a sense of organised chaos.
Oddly enough, when spots are not placed in the right places the picture looks incredibly wrong, the rules of perspective cannot be ignored.
The main influences on Graham Austin OAM as an artist now are the marvellous effects of aerial landscape and the sense of spirit emanating from the landscape patterns, that conjointly, emanates from the spirit.
Graham Austin OAM paint in spots, in a style akin to the pointillists but he is more interested in creating a spotted abstraction on close inspection, that fuses into reality when viewed from a distance.
The main themes and subjects of his artworks are mostly the abstracted creation of landscape where water and wind carve the design, sculpting the moving surface.
He likes the sense of rocks and trees becoming spots, sometimes standing alone and sometimes gathering in groups just like people, intermingling in life and becoming a tide of movement, a current of aerially viewed patterns juxtaposed in perspective.
You can contact the artist about their art tips or art techniques directly via their website at grahamaustin.com.au