Creating a 'Sense of Place'
Robert Juniper established a reputation for landscape, particularly desert, painting that used surface & colour in a vivacious way. His own 'sense of space' goes beyond the landscape into the figurative to make the landscape human.
'The River Dies in January' 1977
Robert Juniper's landscapes have a relationship to those of
John Olsen (recent news post) & Fred Williams ( next news post )
All three painters play with the lateralness of the picture plane
and the illusionistic space that lies behind it
Juniper uses marks and materials scattered across the surface ( see video)
Both abstract and naturalistic forms create a sense of place
My experiments with inks & oil sticks on Kitakata paper reflect
colours used in some of Juniper's paintings
Often my paintings becomes the land & sea while I am the sky
This ink on rice paper is reflecting the warm sunny climate of
Far North Queensland and is only the beginning of what is to come
I too am discovering my sense of place
