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.’
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