Melanie Waugh, Eucalyptus Parsley Bay, 2022
Melanie Waugh’s paintings of creeks, coastlines, and rainforests capture familiar scenes from the artist’s life. With broad brushstrokes, rich colours and contrasting light, Waugh continues the grand narrative of Australian landscape painting, presenting an energetic picture of this immense island.
A love letter to her old city, Luna luxuriates in a romanticised vision of the artist’s former eastern suburb haunts. Harbour beaches, ocean alcoves and forested foreshores are depicted under a canopy of stars, inviting an enchanted and unpeopled perspective of an urban paradise.