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Artist Statement
I arrived in Australia from New Zealand in my mid twenties to start courses in Interior Design and Architecture at RMIT. During those years, I began painting and taking art works to the St Kilda promenade, which also started an art career.
The landscape in New Zealand is a contrast to that in Australia, and I had to adapt to this change in light, colour, scene and harshness, when attempting to convey an Australian painting.
My landscape works depict local scenes, and also scenes from travels around Australia that interest me. Some works are recalls of places remembered in which changes to light and colour are more important in their depiction than the accuracy of place. My hope in conveying these works in this way, is to provide the viewer with the feeling of a time and place that may mean something to them in the way it also had meaning to me.
Theme: EMBER
As a Landscape painter, the feeling of time and place is everything in conveying the image in that artwork. Finding inspiration before commencing a landscape painting,
I find I must ask myself these questions, what is there in this this scene that makes it interesting and how can I improve the way this scene looks. So, before commencing work on a painting I must have an image of what I am trying to achieve in that work. For me, colour, time of day, and interest in the scene, provide the motivation to attempt to capture what I want to say in that work.
— Clive Douglas, Dromana, Victoria
