Auguste Blackman 'The Bright Owl' nature

Auguste Blackman 'The Bright Owl' natureElectric with life and colour, this painting presents the owl as both sentinel and riddle a timeless emblem of instinct, wisdom, and the worlds we sense but cannot quite see. Colour surges across the surface in confident, expressive gestures, balancing instinctive energy with moments of surprising tenderness. The result is a work that feels at once grounded in nature and untethered by it, pulling the viewer into a lush, imaginative realm. Layers of

acrylic on linen

silent landscape

Burke died too at a place now called Burke’s Waterhole in South Australia

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creating works like this original screenprint

Field to Figuration at the National Gallery of Victoria (1986) and numerous exhibitions of the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW

Glattauer has exhibited at the Museum of Victoria

Paper Dimensions: 154 x 113 cm

Image Size: 35 x 40 cm

In his painting

Perched upon a branch

'Reclining Nude'