PERCEPTION

8 Nov - 30 Nov, 2024

Rosy Lloyd grew up in the UK and moved to Australia in 2004. She has a family of three children and lives in Sydney’s Inner West, an environment that informs many of her landscape paintings. Her family’s love of the Northern Beaches and South Coast of NSW has created a strong connection to the ocean and bush, which has further inspired her work.

Rosy has been a finalist in multiple prestigious Australian art prizes including the AME Bale, in which she won the painting category in 2020, the Portia Geach Memorial Award and Paddington Art Prize.

Rosy paints weekly ‘en plein-air’ and these ‘collecting excursions’ inform her use of tone and colour back in the studio. She aims for an intuitive style of painting which expresses a sense of freedom in the use of loose brush marks and orients towards abstraction.

The series of paintings in PERCEPTION of lights set against an Australian forest escarpment was inspired by a residency (via the William Fletcher Foundation) at Bundanon, NSW, where Rosy would come outside each evening to paint the dying light or sunset in the valley. Back in the studio, she found that one painting tended to inform the next and the series took her on a journey of magical escapism. Blocks of colour and distant lights evoke a sense of ethereal otherness in these landscape and semi-abstract paintings.

The artist invites the viewer to contemplate a dialogue between our experience of the world as we perceive it, alongside our inner responses to sensory experiences and memories. The dancing, floating colours represent hidden qualities and fleeting feelings that are informed by memory and make up our sense of ‘self’.

Perception

Oil on wood, 76 x 76 cm

1700 incl GST

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