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HARRY PIDGEON Exhibition
"INSIGHT OUT"
Friday September 19 - October 13, 2003
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| The artist Jeffrey Makin has said of Harry’s work: “Harry Pidgeon’s paintings would best be described as conceptual realism.” |
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Arrivals & Departures
61 x 84cm
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Work Place
38 x 28cm
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Last Stop
56 x 76cm
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Artist Statement
“Over the last few years I’ve found myself drawn closer to nature. Visually getting in very close and looking back out from that viewpoint has been a great influence on my recent paintings. Intense colour remains a huge motivation and I paint where I see it. This often leads to digressions into seascapes, harbourscapes and architectural landscapes. Although I paint what I see, often what I see are relationships and digressions, nature and the rural landscape, natural habitats and townships, fish and boats, birds and letterboxes, shapes and patterns, stillness and motion. Painting arises out of connecting the image with an emotion, seeking that special relationship be it drawn from the delights of Southern France, social cultures, tribal ritual or from that intimate observation of nature.” |
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Collected Thoughts
76 x 56cm
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Momentary
38 x 51cm
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Beynac Chapel
28 x 38cm
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Dordogne Intersect
28 x 38cm
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Abbey De Senanque
28 x 38cm
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Dordogne Intensity
28 x 38cm
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Up & Down
76 x 56cm
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Intensity
38 x 51cm
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Undercover
38 x 51cm
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Decorators
38 x 51cm
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In Close
56 x 76cm
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Intimate
56 x 76cm
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Cockatoo Land
76 x 56cm
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Four Flight
76 x 56cm
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Headress
56 x 76cm
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Working Boats I
56 x 76cm
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Working Boats II
56 x 76cm
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Gatherings
61 x 84cm
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Background
Projecting himself above mountains, boulders, valleys and rivers, or from below the sea, many of the paintings reveal the landscape as a tapestry of flowing forms dramatically overlaid with soaring birds or a school of fish.
Up close and personal caught in the wind of leaves and sky, a catalogue of brilliant, often larger than life, crimson rosellas, eastern rosellas, curious magpie’s, king parrots, sulphur-crested or black cockatoos create the entire habitat. As Harry says “Visually getting in very close to nature and looking back out from that viewpoint has been a great influence on my recent paintings.” One can almost feel the feathers and smell the leaves in these works.
Harry Pidgeon’s paintings actively engage us through the ‘looking glass of nature’ where the intimate bursts with a richness of colour and spontaneity that integrates volume and space with the drama of his compositions. Such luminosity is harnessed not only by Harry’s understanding of dimension and the effect of shadow, but also by his detailed draughtsmanship. With consummate ease, each work flows between subjects caught in a flash of movement and the solid form of ’things’. Things such as letterboxes, a jetty, a fire engine, a bridge often provide the focal point in his architectural and nautical landscapes.
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Balance
76 x 56cm
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Intimate Red
56 x 76cm
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High Red
76 x 56cm
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Centre Red
56 x 76cm
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High Colour
56 x 76cm
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Coloured In
56 x 76cm
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Free Flow
56 x 76cm
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Liberty
76 x 56cm
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High Dominion
56 x 76cm
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Crossover
56 x 76cm |
Perennial
38 x 51cm
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Home Base
38 x 51cm
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Pervasive
38 x 51cm
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Alert
51 x 38cm
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Two
76 x 56cm
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