Colours of Australia by Marijke Greenway
Marijke Greenway with her husband John travelled in three loops round Australia, camping for two to three months at a time, John’s bike on top and her easel, canvasses and tent inside their vehicle, always looking for the most amazing and colourful scenery to experience and set down in paint and photos.
The Garden Gallery, Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
20 September – 20 October 2024
10am – 4pm
Free
The Kimberley is a unique geological paradise!
Works on canvas, birch ply and paper - with oil, watercolour, crushed ochre, acrylic, and encaustic (beeswax).
Marijke took a Kimberley Cruise from Darwin to Broome during July 2023, which provided new inspiration, now seeing the Kimberley from the water. She was touched by the changing colours of the water and the tilted rocks, the reflections of the mangroves in that lucid water in the creeks, the waterfalls, the wildlife and the ancient art ……and her feelings became paintings.
The painted journeys cover the Red Centre, the Pilbara, Western Australia, the Kimberley, Kakadu, and the East Coast and all the colour along the way.
Marijke started doing encaustic art (melted beeswax, damar resin and oil pigment) about 10 years ago, so there are many encaustics showing the beautiful water of the Kimberley and her love of trees.
Come travel with Marijke!
Colours of Australia
The Red Centre, the Kimberley, the Pilbara In these places I set up my easel
In a studio created by the landscape Rocky reds and spinifex greens Ancient hills of golds and pinks Ghostly gums and red bull dust Then came the lucid waters of the
Kimberley coast, waterfalls, mangroves Ancient rock art, tumbled rocks
An archeological paradise laid bare Creation’s gift to all of us.
All colours seen and felt
Set off by the verdant greens On the East coast going home
Marijke Greenway