Renowned Walcha artist Ross Laurie has finally been selected by the judges as a finalist in the Wynne Prize. Sydney Morning Herald visual arts reviewer John McDonald has for years commented on the failure of the selection panel to recognise ‘one of the most original landscapists in contemporary Australian art’.
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In 2015 Mr McDonald wrote: “His brand of abstracted landscape, which has won him a following among private collectors, never seems to make an impression on the trustees.”
Mr Laurie said his picture began as a three-panel painting before he changed tack and reduced its scale.
“I am concerned with finding ways of describing the world or the sensation of being in a certain place,” he said. “In this work, the composition of forms, tones and colours meet to convey the feeling of being in the landscape around my farm, south of Walcha.
The Wynne Prize is awarded annually for 'the best landscape painting of Australian scenery or for the best example of figure sculpture by Australian artists’.
Vanessa Arundale
Everyone has a story to tell and I like to help them do it.
Everyone has a story to tell and I like to help them do it.
