We are incredibly proud and excited for our three well deserved John Leslie Art Prize Finalists. To familiarise you with their works in the lead up to the prize, we have asked each artist to write a small piece about their practice, and their piece that has been selected.
Paul Waycott is a Manyung Gallery stalwart, and has held some fantastic and successful exhibitions with us in the recent past. Paul writes beautifully about his practice below:
“My work is motivated and inspired by the ever changing vistas created by interaction of sea, sky and shoreline, which can transition so immensely over days, hours, or even within one particular moment, from dramatic to serene and back again. I am transfixed by the play and interaction of light between sky and water, the seeming endlessness of the horizon, and the mystery, drama and life encapsulated in these scenes. My work attempts to depict this in layers of colour, using both brush and palette knife to create texture.
I am lucky enough to have a constant stream of this inspiration at the doorstep of my home on the Bellarine Peninsula, of which most of my paintings are tributes, thereby containing more intense personal meaning and significance. My painting Swan Bay August Sky is an example of one of these familiar and much loved views. It is a depiction of a winter vista over a local estuarine wetlands, putting into firmer contrast the transition from dynamic sea to solid land, and juxtaposed, but also intrinsically intertwined, with the splendour of the sky.”
Paul's available work can be viewed here