Rowen Matthews feels the landscape around him then looks for essential rhythms. In this show, using oil pencil, oil sticks and paint he experiments with marks that express the energy of this essence.
It’s all about energy, not just in the seeing of things but the hearing, touching, dancing, jumping of things, feeling the rise and fall of the land, to be softened by the lands whisper, comforted by the gentleness of calm days and buffeted by the brutality of strong wind, we live with all of this. The cold bites us and the warmth opens our nostrils. These paintings invite us to immerse ourselves.
Catherine Asquith Gallery
8 to 26 October, 2013
Melbourne
Storm Creek, 2013, oil stick on paper, 40 x 45cm
Courtesy the artist and Catherine Asquith Gallery
