New Zealand-born, Australia-based artist Euan Macleod presents a series of works on paper representing a travelogue of the last two years spent at home and further afield in Cooktown, Queensland, Lake Hattah, Victoria, and Florence, Italy. The visual notation en plein air with his signature dark mossy palette is sometimes splintered by the glow of a streetlight, or a dappled reflection on water. As artist and friend Geoff Dixon writes, Macleod not only observed the shape of landscapes, light and hues in his environment, but is also attune to the sensation of being one of a handful suspended in a “traveller-vortex where disparate bikers, backpackers and nomads, grey or otherwise, all briefly converge.”
Watters Gallery
2 to 19 November, 2016
Sydney
Orange Buildings – Park Florence, 2015, acrylic on paper, 38 x 58cm
Courtesy the artist and Watters Gallery, Sydney
