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Panoramas | 06  - 30 APRIL 2018

Waterworld

Waterworld

Watercolour h130 x w240cm Price: $11000 SOLD

From Above

From Above

Watercolour h123 xw97cm Price $3900 SOLD

From Above

From Above

Watercolour h123 xw97cm Price $3900 SOLD Framed in white oak

Water World

Water World

Watercolour original 130 x 240cm Framed in black oak $11000 SOLD

Hillside

Hillside

55 x 138 cm SOLD

Hillside_55 x 158cm

Hillside_55 x 158cm

$2950 (Framed) Watercolour on Arches SOLD

Sunset_30x98cm

Sunset_30x98cm

Watercolour on Arches SOLD

Panorama_ total 3.5 meter long

Panorama_ total 3.5 meter long

Watercolour on Arches Dyptich, 3.5 meters long $8500 SOLD

Reflection_30x87cm

Reflection_30x87cm

SOLD Watercolour on Arches

Dyptich Emerald-lake_40x56cm

Dyptich Emerald-lake_40x56cm

$1250 (framed) Watercolour on Roymac

Solitary_21x48.5

Solitary_21x48.5

Watercolour on Arches SOLD

Night fall_21x47.5cm

Night fall_21x47.5cm

$950 (framed) Watercolour on Arches

Looking west_15.5x70cm

Looking west_15.5x70cm

SOLD Watercolour on Arches

Distant memory_16x48cm

Distant memory_16x48cm

$950 (framed) Watercolour on Arches

By Robert Hollingworth

 

Artistic merit can be determined by asking two simple questions: does the work have something to say, and does it say it well? Students of art grapple with the former – having something to say – their limitedlife experience doesn’t help. Initiates also grapple with the latter – saying something well. That means finding a suitable medium – oil, acrylic, watercolour, bronze, felt, video – and learning how to engage with it.

 

Stefan Gevers has long past this stage. He knows what he wants to say and has found his medium, predominantly watercolour, which he handles as though the stuff is in his bloodstream. He is aware that it’s notabout mastering the medium. Instead, he recognises clearly what watercolour wants to do all by itself and has learned to collaborate with it, to work in tandem – artist and medium – so that the outcome rewards both. Balance and unity are not just properties of composition but of process as well. So, good painting is really a love affair.

A glance at Stefan Gevers’ work is enough to appreciate thispleasing relationship. Nothing is forced, nothing feigned, there’s nocharade. He sees, he feels, he translates directly, no preliminary studies, no pre-drawing or marking out. Composing goes on in the artist’s headjust as it might for a composer of music.

This kind of forthrightness in contemporary art is rarer than some may think. Many artists feel there is some imperative to hunt downnovelty, and believe art is about trends and ideas when perhaps it’s muchmore about insight. Perception and empathy are this artist’s stock in trade.

Stefan Gevers was born in the Netherlands, leaving in 1993 totravel ‘as far away as possible’. He fell in love with Australia, and over thelast twenty years has toured extensively, the main inspiration for his work being nature and the landscape. No doubt, the sheer expansiveness of this country lies in sharp contrast to the Netherlands, a fact that must have impressed the very first Dutch explorers as well.

The paintings in this current show are inspired by a round trip from Melbourne to Ulladulla in NSW and back again. The works do not include much evidence of human interaction. Instead, Gevers prefers to locate aspects of the land uncontaminated by human activity. He seeks out these culture-free zones and seems to suggest that they’re worthregarding, worth preserving, if humans are ever to enjoy a dignified future. 

 

Robert Hollingworth April 2018

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