Emma Sutherland, The Corner Store Gallery.
Emma Sutherland - Seven Colours at Woollamia
Exhibition Dates: April 27th - May 10th
Online Sales Launch: 7pm April 27th
Every year I take my small children camping in Woollamia, a strip of bush on the NSW South Coast. The air is clean and warm, slightly crisp come the evening. You can smell the earth, the blossoms, the salty mangroves.
The world moves more slowly in this place. My kids run wild.
I watch the clouds, the tides on the mangroves, the ocean, the tea-tree lined creeks. The way the light streams through the trees after rain, the chaos of the birds in the evening. The grey light of the early morning air, when everyone is sleeping except for the little ochre crabs, busying themselves in the clay of the river bank.
I paint the colours and the movement. I paint the salty crabs and the mangrove roots. I paint my memories of the river at dusk, the last bit of sun, the dappled light reflecting on the tree leaves as the day fades.
My paintings are landscapes and abstractions and smells and memories of this place.
I use floods of colour, scrubby brush strokes, marks to make paintings of this place. I limited myself to seven colours- and whilst mixed they make a myriad of different tones and colours, they provide a structure for my visual memories.
Emma Sutherland is an Australian abstract painter. Her paintings tell the stories of memories gathered in the Australian landscape through colour and mark-making.
She trained as practiced as an Interior Designer for many years. She has always made paintings and her art practice has evolved from a lifetime of personal study into a solid artistic pursuit.
She continues to build on her foundation, pushing her work and her practice through painting expeditions, workshops and masterclasses.
Emma Sutherland, The Corner Store Gallery.