Warwick Fuller. Dawn, Day & Dusk

A master of his art Warwick is certainly one of Australia's foremost living landscape painters. This is his eighth London solo exhibition with Panter & Hall and his first in our new Pall Mall premises. Since his last exhibition with us he has had the honour of accompanying, as official artist, TRH the Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall on their recent tour of Australia. His many followers in the Western hemisphere will not be disappointed by this magnificent new collection of sumptuous oils, each a perfectly crafted homage to the wilderness around his Blue Mountain home.

Born in Sydney in 1948, Warwick studied under Kelvin Oxley before embarking on a career as a plein air painter spanning a quarter of a century. One of Australia’s best loved landscape artists, he has held thirty solo exhibitions at home and in Japan and won over forty awards for his exhibited work. Warwick’s paintings are held in numerous corporate and public collections in Australia and have been purchased by collectors in Japan, England, Germany, Holland and the USA. He is a Fellow of the Royal Art Society of New South Wales.

We are delighted to host the eighth London solo exhibition of one of Australia’s foremost landscape painters. Warwick is a painter obsessed by light and its effect on his surroundings, in his words he is ‘intoxicated by the light, any light!’ Whether under the dazzling blaze of an Australian summer midday sun or a gentle English winter twilight, he feels driven to seek out the respective nuances and subtleties of their different qualities. Warwick feels strongly that his subjects choose him and his paintings are an attempt to express his emotional response to them. Relying on a natural countryman’s sense of nature and the natural world he works, often under the enforced urgency of fleeting light, to transcend pure representation by capturing that elusive magical quality that the light endows.

Warwick’s style although representational is distinctly post-impressionist. His richly textured works in sumptuous bravura brush strokes are a powerful testament to the artist’s extraordinary talent for handling oil paint. However this technical mastery of the material should not mask the more philosophical aspect of Warwick’s paintings, unquestionably the key to his craft is his intense sense of engagement with his subject. His habit of travelling deep up country to immerse himself in the landscape leads him to a very physical understanding of the terrain. This emotional response to his direct experience is that which he seeks to express, I believe successfully, in these paintings.