Lunawanna-Allonah | 2024

Original artwork by Gary Martin

Lunawanna-Allonah triptych, acrylic on canvas, 3 x canvases 30cm each, framed in black timber, 106cm overall.

It is my desire to capture and convey the transcendent essence of the Australian landscape that keeps me coming back into the studio.  I formulate my compositions from sketches, plein air gouaches, memories, and photographs.  For me, it is all about recreating the atmosphere of a particular place through a representative assemblage of local motifs, lines and, when using paint - colours.  Sometimes my artworks are an accurate technical reproduction of a particular location, but in others I re-compose elements to better convey the feeling of a place or region through colour and form.