Saturday Morning Fever

AW18 EH Fvr02 Dusk Pandanus Backlit Oil 91x91
Dusk pandanus, backlit, 2018

Oil on canvas, 91.5cm x 91.5cm.

AW18 Macaranga trees in magenta zone pockets W
Macaranga trees in magenta zone pockets, 2018

Oil on canvas, 180cm x 100cm.

AW18 EHF08 Pandanus light flas W
Pandanus light flashes, 2018

Watercolour and gouache on Arches paper, 57cm x 57cm. [Available]

AW Mangrove pods float the estuary W
Mangrove pods float the estuary green zone, 2018

Oil on canvas, 200cm x 120cm

AW18 EHF12 Three rock walls at the estuary W
Three rock walls at the estuary, 2018

Watercolour and gouache on Arches paper, 76cm x 57cm.

AW Macaranga Shade BAP winner
Macaranga shade and pandanus blush in a dusk zone, Bargara, 2018

Oil on canvas, triptych, 160cm x 1960cm. Overall Winner of 2017 Bundaberg Art Prize, in the collection of Best Practice Software.

AW18 EHF09 Summer Rain Fever
Summer rain fever, 2018

Watercolour and gouache on Fabriano paper, 76cm x 57cm. [Available]

AW18 EHF10 Mangrove Flowers Floating
Mangrove flowers floating, 2018

Watercolour and gouache on Arches paper, 76cm x 57cm.

AW18 EH Fvr07 Pandanus Light windows 56x76 Fabr
Pandanus light windows, 2018

Watercolour and gouache on Fabriano paper, 76cm x 57cm.

AW18 EHF04 Saturday afternoon fever pandanus
Saturday afternoon fever, pandanus, 2018

Oil on canvas, 91.5cm x 91.5cm

Saturday Morning Fever

Works from Elliott Heads

2018 Red Hill Gallery

These works took a new direction following a move to the seaside at Elliott Heads, south-east of Bundaberg. Adrienne has dreamed of living near the sea, for a very long time. While the massive upheaval of moving the studio created a deficit of painting time, in the short moments between hefting furniture and delving deep into the backs of untouched cupboard corners, she began sketching the new ‘backyard’.

Elliott Heads sits north of a wide aqua estuary, fevers of stingrays move in and out of the shallows, orange mangrove leaves float on the tide, pandanus and pines line an idyllic foreshore above rockpools.

Utilising traditional landscape painting elements, Adrienne continues the development of her colourist compositions, exploring the tensions between wild places and adjacent altered landscapes. The intersection of that tension, the impact, the back story; they are the enquiries she is making within each piece.

Sketching plein air is an integral part of her practice, and Saturday Morning Fever saw Adrienne embark on a new body of work, in a new space, with exciting new content.