George Cooley
Artwork title: Painting my Country – The Breakaways
Medium: Acrylic on linen
Size: 124 cm x 116 cm
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About the Artwork
The area I’ve painted is part of the Stuart Ranges, just north of Coober Pedy. This is a place I have visited many times since my early teens. It’s a place where I go camping, hunting and gathering bush tucker, and where opals are found.
Cooley works from memory documenting the landscape and its spectacular mesas, ridges and sloping escarpments. He uses an aerial viewpoint to increase to buildup rich layers of paint with a palette knife to celebrate the extraordinary beauty of desert colour. The work also draws from his many years of prospecting for opals on the land.
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