Doris McCarthy, From the Heights, New Mexico, 1998, oil on board, 12″ x 16″

Just arrived, this stunning Doris McCarthy plein air oil painting!
McCarthy travelled to Arizona and New Mexico April, 1998 for a memorable painting trip, discovering the patterns of colour and light spreading over the hills and valleys – revelling in the opportunity to spend time with a heightened colour palette.

Doris McCarthy, Connomara Ireland, 1950, watercolour and felt pen, 8.75″ x 10.5″

Likewise, and on as many occasions as would allow, McCarthy visited Ireland in April, the rainy month and time of new growth -on one of her first trips, braving the elements to capture the Spring array of colours.

Greg Curnoe, Morittz Furniture, 1984, watercolour, 9″ x 12″

A local landmark and its blossoming surrounds gave Greg Curnoe ample opportunity to display his prowess with the watercolour medium – one that allowed him to play with colour to great affect!

Greg Curnoe, When I think of Marilyn, 1962, collage, pencil and ink on paper, 19.75″ x 18.75″

Curnoe is reknowned for his stencil and collage work and his use of an array of materials, textures and colour. His interest in colour is not limited to the work within the frame. Here, in this early work, Curnoe hand painted the frame, as was often the case, and carefully selected the mat to complete the work.

Mary Pratt, Jelly, 1978, hand-pulled original lithograph, colour proofs, 7″ x 8.5″ ea

In the early years of her career Mary Pratt released some of the working drawings and proofs for the remarkable 14 colour stone lithograph, Jelly, to exhibit and show the intense and fascinating process of making a full colour stone lithograph. In this rare triptych of signed print proofs, there is the “yellow, orange, blue”; “the yellow, orange, red”; and “light proof of yellow, orange and blue, purple”.

Jaan Poldaas, Twelve Colour Pair Study 2, 1996, collage, 9″ x 15″

And last but not least, one of the fine, Twelve Colour Pair Studies, comprised of collaged, hand painted strips of colour, by the late Jaan Poldaas, a master of colour.