Open Gallery

Sydney Morning Herald - Spectrum June 7-8 2008

Josephine Tovey

Australian landscapes are usually characterised by dry red earth by Ryan's paintings work with a different pallette. The Victorian-born artist depicts the landscape of her home state in cool blues and greens, capturing fields and trees in the misty light of a cold, wet morning. As in previous exhibitions, each of Ryan's oil paintings focuses on a particular tree or cluster of trees in this foggy setting, a wonderfully detailed silhouette that rises from the flat field. Ryan has said she continues to paint this landscape from the dairy farming area where she grew up because it is what is intimately familiar to her. Through these serene paintings, she brings us closer to this Australia as well.

_back to previous page