The wilderness is at the heart of everything Ochre creates especially being interested in portraying old growth forest, landscapes and native animals. Ochre strives to travel to untouched wilderness places to record what is increasingly being lost from the world forever.
This body of work travels between Bilpin in the Blue Mountains where Ochre was an artist in residence at the Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiative, and Botany Bay National Park at La Perouse. All the works have been made en plein-air. There’s an expressive quality to the work that comes from the immediacy of plein-air painting and the artist’s desire to focus on form and negative space while retaining the early process drawing marks as part of the finished work.
Chrissie Cotter Gallery
16 to 27 July, 2014
Sydney
Congwong Rocks #4, acrylic, gouache and charcoal on board, 55 x 45cm
Courtesy the artist and Chrissie Cotter Gallery
