Penny Verdich
Penny Verdich is a contemporary artist from Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
Primarily a painter of semi abstract landscapes, Penny uses saturated colour to create bold patterned paintings. Drawing and painting on location is central to her practice. This enables Penny to explore the lines, shapes and patterns of the environment and provides the foundation for work completed in her home studio. For Penny, ‘on location’ can be anywhere from the tangled Angophora foreshore of Sydney Harbour to the wild southern reaches of Tasmania as well as the vastness of central Australia and its desert landscape.
‘It’s being outside, in all elements, from the peaceful beaches and coves of Sydney Harbour to wild, windy and wet coastlines anywhere from southern Tasmania to Svalbard in the Arctic Circle, that inspire me to create preliminary drawings in my trusty sketchbook.’
For each painting, the colour and texture of the ground guides Penny to create forms and tessellated patterns which resolve into a semi abstract landscape.
‘The aim is not to reproduce the scene but to create a response to the elements of the physical environment. Line, colour and perhaps most importantly pattern, offer me a way of representing my personal view of the world and transforming reality.’
AVALIABLE WORK
AVAILABLE WORK
80cm x 105cm
Acrylic on Polycotton
Framed in Tasmanian Oak
Moored at peaceful Taylor’s Bay on Sydney Harbour and cocooned from the frenetic pace of Sydney life, I’ve drawn its densely vegetated foreshore many times. Dominated by towering Angophoras and punctuated by outcrops of Sydney sandstone, it’s a challenge to incorporate these giants of the scene as well as the complex understory.
By using strong shapes as well as detailed patterning, I hope to convey grandeur as well as the quiet beauty of the smaller elements of this foreshore landscape.
As a visual artist I want to inspire viewers to seek out this secluded bay, on foot or on watercraft and commit to preserving and enhancing our Sydney Harbour foreshore.