Creating a ‘Sense of Place’

Robert Juniper Painting

Robert Juniper established a reputation for landscape, particularly desert, painting that used surface & colour in a vivacious way. His own 'sense of space' goes beyond the landscape into the figurative to make the landscape human.

'The River Dies in January' 1977

Robert Juniper's landscapes have a relationship to those of John Olsen (recent news post) and Fred Williams (next news post).

All three painters play with the lateralness of the picture plane and the illusionistic space that lies behind it Juniper uses marks and materials scattered across the surface (see video). Both abstract and naturalistic forms create a sense of place.

My experiments with inks & oil sticks on Kitakata paper reflect colours used in some of Juniper's paintings.

Often my paintings becomes the land & sea while I am the sky. This ink on rice paper is reflecting the warm sunny climate of Far North Queensland and is only the beginning of what is to come. I too am discovering my sense of place….