Phil Stallard, Jo Langley & N. G MAlla - Almost Spring

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Phil Stallard: Memory and Place series -

These new landscapes are poetic meditations on places; it is through the act of painting I evoke a Tao kind of essence that I take away from an experience in nature. Over the years I have climbed and explored the Blue Mountains and Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin). 

I use memories of these places as a starting point for a painting, details that are vague become colour fields. 

I use an interplay between realism and abstraction; oil paint is a very fluid medium and I’m open to improvisation to heighten the experience of the painting. Saturated colours move me to evoke a kind of romanticism with these paintings; an elevated experience.

Phil Stallard, July 2025

Jo Langley: 

N. G Malla: