Laura Jones

Laura Jones is an Australian artist based in Sydney.
Her paintings are about colour, but also about the paint itself - its texture and application.
She works quickly and intuitively, and there is a wonderful vigour and immediacy to the brushwork.

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Camellias

Botanical illustration

Antoine Chazal

Jonathan Koch, White Camellia and Green Vase

Otto Ottesen

Violet McInnes, (Australian)

Grapes

Nicolas de Largilliere (1556-1646), Two Bunches of Grapes.
Gerard van Spaendock (1746-1822), Black grapes on a Marble Ledge.
Robert Hannaford, Australian, contemporary.

The translucency and reflectivity, the variety of colour and tone, in a bunch of grapes is challenging but provides a lot of visual interest.

Pam Tippett

Protea, oil on board, 30 x 30 cm

Pam Tippett is an Australian artist who studied traditional oil painting techniques in Italy. She currently has an exhibition at Australian Galleries

Margaret Olley

The Australian still life painter Margaret Olley passed away recently. She was a larger than life character in the Sydney art scene who was twice the subject of Archibald Portrait Prize winning entries by other artists. Though in her late 80s she was working towards an exhibition when she died in her sleep. A good way to go.

Her small terrace house in Paddington was full of objects she had collected over her life for composing her still life paintings.

Lucy Cullinton - Australian

Max Lieberman - Australian

Clarice Beckett - Australian

Bowl of Marigolds, 34 x 41 cm

Are these Calendulas?

Robert Hannaford - Australian