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    • Solo Show Mitchell English
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    • Ben Waters - Landscape Within
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    • Guest Artist Col Ritchie - Dogwood
    • Love Stories Group Show
    • Seasons Duo - Monique Storey + Lyn Michie
    • Marilou Palazon - Untamed
    • Kirsty Gautheron - Reverence
    • Solo show- Fiona Chandler
    • Paper & Ink Guest Artist Printmaking Show
    • 7th bday - Mini Show 2024
    • Helen Proctor - Storm Chaser
    • Misha Harrison - Floral Fusion
    • Joan Blond - Colour is Life
    • Anna Price - Beach Lyfe
    • Reuse - Group Show
    • Nanda Nasser - In the Beginning
    • Emergence
    • Black & White 2024
    • Celebrate 2024
    • Stockroom 2024
    • Deck the Walls 2023
    • Solo Show Mitchell English
    • All Figured Out
    • Misha Harrison - WALLFLOWER
    • Spring Show 2023
    • Kirsty Gautheron - Connections: Land Sea Sky
    • Marilou Palazon - Release
    • Colour Block
    • In The Frame 2023 Guest Artists Group Show
    • Spotlight Group Show, Second Room
    • 6th Birthday Show 2023
    • Interplay - Cassandra Ng + Marie Schlederer
    • Monique Storey - What The Tide Brings in
    • Joan Blond Solo - Reflective Journey
    • Art & Word
    • Summer Group Show 2023
    • David Wiggs Solo 2023
    • Deck the walls Christmas Show 2022
    • Still Life - Group Exhibition 2022
    • Marilou Palazon - Unfurled
    • Ben Waters - Landscape Within
    • Fiona Chandler - A Great Balancing Act
    • Making the show - Fiona Chandler
    • Colour Fields by Marie Schlederer
    • Studio Select - Group Show
    • Small Wonders Group Show
    • In The Frame 2022 Guest Artist Group Show
    • 2022 5th Birthday Show
    • Amanda Tye - Pink Antidote
    • Current Group Exhibition
    • Misha Harrison - Material Bloom
    • Kylie Sirret Home
    • Ben Lucas - Under the Same Sky
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    • Artist’s Spotlight
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    • New Narratives - Group Show 2021
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    • Jessica Watts - In The Raw
    • Ben Waters - Sense of place
    • A Sense of Place - walkthrough
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    • Ethereal Walkthrough Video
    • Fiona Chandler - I Know that Rock
    • I Know that Rock - exhibition viewing
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Landscapes Within                                                                                                           September 29 - October 16

Ben spent 2017 and 2018 living on Lord Howe Island where he reinvigorated his love of painting and developed a deep interest in depicting the natural landscape as a source of inspiration, wonder and rejuvenation.

His paintings aim to show both the natural beauty of the landscape but also, to evoke our own emotional and personal response to it. His imagery is derived from observation, combining multiple views, memory and imagination. Since returning to Avalon his work has focused on Barrenjoey Headland and its Pittwater surrounds.

This new group of landscape paintings is a further exploration of the Pittwater region but also, The Snowy Mountain areas of Perisher and Charlottes Pass and Lord Howe Island. The focus of these works is predominantly, observation, memory, experience and imagination.

 

‘All are used to explore the landscapes in front of me, but more so, the landscapes within me. As such each painting is not a picture of a view. It is more like a memory, or a thinking about that place’.

 

‘These landscapes are represented by my time spent within them.’

 

‘As I paint, I often find my observations of the spaces around me begin to change and I start to think about my experience within those places. During these moments I am often thinking about the first time I was in that landscape or remembering past visits. What the weather was like then as compared to now. Who I was with or was I alone? I am comparing my emotional reactions. Are they the same? Have they changed? All these thoughts or questions help to inform how I then make decisions about that painting.’

 

‘It is through the act of painting these places that I can imagine moving through them. The painted lines in my work represent the topography of the land. I am imagining walking along, over and within its contours.’

 

‘Observing and thinking about these places, remembering my past experiences within them and imagining I am still there even when I have physically left, I can almost feel the landscape in my mind and as such it is a means that I can return to it time and time again.’

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Ben Waters - Alive with Wonder
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Ben Waters - Birds Eye Pittwater
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Ben Waters - Calming Wind
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Ben Waters - Charlottes Pass Morning
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Ben Waters - Fading Light Cliffs
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Ben Waters - Lord Howe Island Glow
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Ben Waters - Over The Treeline
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Ben Waters - Pittwater Sand Dunes
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Ben Waters - Secret Pittwater 1
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Ben Waters - Secret Pittwater 2
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Ben Waters - Secret Pittwater 3
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Ben Waters - The Journey Home
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Ben Waters - Under the Canopy
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