Pearl Beach artist exhibits

Pearl Beach artist Ms Robyn Bellamy will present her latest exhibition of landscape paintings at the Cessnock Regional Art Gallery from Friday, October 19, until Sunday, November 18.

Robyn said her paintings were the product of intense observation of her immediate environment.

Her work portrays the coastal fringe near her home at Pearl Beach and the waterways of the Hawkesbury to the country beyond the ranges and to Ruby Gap in central Australia.

Robyn's extensive travels have included the countryside of Italy, Spain and France where she says the central focus of her work is still the role of nature and humanity's position in it.

Mood and atmosphere are created through an interplay of light and shadow, tone and colour.

Roadways twist and taper off into an unknown future where rooftops and buildings impose themselves upon rural backgrounds at differing stages of domestication.

Ms Bellamy is a graduate of the National Art School whose painting has been influenced by early modern French and Australian painting and also by Renaissance techniques.

She has been an artist and art educator all her professional life and from these joint interests, became one of the founders of Artexpress, the annual state-wide exhibition of selected Higher School Certificate art work.

The exhibition will present over 60 works, ranging in size from classical miniatures to substantial large canvases.

Media Release, 5 Oct 2012

Lynne Lillico, Pearl Beach

Photo: Lynne Lillico