Gail English 'Wheat' drawing

Gail English 'Wheat' drawingGail English is inspired by the palette of nature: the pale ochres of paddocks, grey slicks of sky, pink hilltops, orange dust and burnt stubble. She started painting professionally in her fifties, before leaving Sydney for a barn on the mid north coast of New South Wales. The sea change felt right a return to Englishs childhood spent on a property near Young. In 2008, she won the Country Energy Prize for landscape.Wheat is a testament to English's

variously signed or initialled and dated

It evokes the eerie grace of Australia’s landscape and the feeling of waking to a dark morning

'Miro in Pompidou' 1996

symbolic potency

most notably as the star of his large religious scene 'The Light Beyond' (1910)

completed by Lymburner prior to his death

Archival Ink on Archival Watercolour Paper

'Great Western Tiers II'

Thomas Dean captures one his favourite subjects - a Traves sister from Kogarah

He is represented across public institutions

Utagawa KUNISADA (1786 - 1865)

It also speaks to something more profound