Graham Austin OAM
Fine artist in Acrylics, Oils and Watercolour.
Awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia [OAM] January 2006.
Emeritus President, Australian Watercolour Institute [AWI]
Studied at National Art School 1958-63. Member of Australian Watercolour Institute (AWI), since 1972. AWI President from 1989 to 2003. President of Peninsula Art Society from 1986 to 1988. Foundation Senior Vice President/President of Drummoyne Art Society 1964 to 1967.
Has held solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions including New Zealand, Mexico, UK, Spain, Canada, Korea and Hong Kong. Has made study tours to Kimberley in Western Australia, Northern Territory, Bali, UK, France, Italy and Singapore.

Prizes: Won over 35 major awards. Represented: Manly Art Gallery, Lismore Art Trust, Drummoyne; Ryde, Warringah and Waverley Councils, Montrose Wines, Tomago Aluminium, Trinity Grammar, Kincoppal College, Prince of Wales Hospital, many private collections in Australia and abroad.

Acrylics: His painting style in acrylics has a resemblance and parallel to pointillism. It is often interpreted as a bridging of aboriginal and western art. His spotted patterns of complimentary colours dance adjacently, creating a kinetic abstraction when viewed close up. From a distance the cacophony of spots fuse into statements of Australian landscape, giving his work its inspired individuality. His acrylics offer textured movement of size-varied marks melting into topographical form.

Watercolours: His watercolours emphasise the drama of the Australian landscape, giving the dextrous impression of having fallen off the brush onto the painting surface with washes of workmanlike elegance and incorporating his tradition of spots. GrahamÕs watercolours may show a forest of green spots, shadow linked, flowing like a current over a fringe of red ochre. The existence of borrowed colours, intermixed and settled into the local colour helps the production of his visual poetry.

Oils: His oil paintings vary from an abstraction to traditional aspect and at times, working over an under painting of spotted acrylic. The decided approach is determined by the subject, however his attitude of colour, vibrating against colour remains an underlying element. He incorporates spots into his oils to work colour against colour, he also blends paint to add subtleties.

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Contact
Telephone: 61 2 9402 2988
Email: austin_artist@optusnet.com.au

Original Acrylics, Oils and Watercolour paintings