FINE ART PREVIEW
ULURU SUNSET DESERT OAKS
Paper Edition of 195 Size 24”x 12” FRAMED £695
Canvas Edition of 195 Size 28”x 14” FRAMED £750
“I think his Australian landscapes are particularly fine. You can feel the heat, sense the silent
vastness of the land.” Sir Michael Parkinson
Despite his fondness for his adopted country (and his adopted country’s fondness for him) Rolf retains a huge affection for his ‘beloved Australia’. There is an authenticity to his work that matches the rawness in this monumental landscape – it is wild and natural, and Rolf’s bold and spontaneous style somehow captures this to perfection. One dazzling landscape might shimmer in the heat of the midday sun, while another takes us on a twilight journey through rocks bathed in shadow, their outlines softened by the ever present spinifex. The scene changes but the atmosphere remains.
Rolf has always delighted in painting the world around
him, and remembers that from his earliest days as an artist he used his surroundings as models for all his landscapes. “When I left Australia and arrived in England, I continued to paint these wonderful scenes of my home country,
sometimes from crystal-clear images in my memory, and sometimes from photographic reference. I find I have amazing generic memories of the way eucalyptus trees look against the sky. I seem instinctively to know the growth patterns of every tiny branch of these gum trees, as we Australians call them, and I’m able to capture each bend, the authentic bark patterns and every clump of leaves authentically, so that the viewer believes I was standing in front of that tree when I painted it.” Rolf has always had a genius for communication, and his
artwork reflects this, reaching out and drawing us in to each scene. We can hear the traffic on Westminster Bridge, bask in the heat of the outback, or find ourselves mesmerised by the eyes of a majestic tiger. This magnificent collection undeniably represents the work of a consummate artist at his brilliant best.
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