As I Remembered, 2013, Colin Pennock
Oil on linen, 140cm x 140cm
Provenance: Arthouse Gallery, Sydney.
Landscape artist, Colin Pennock responds to his environment around his adopted home in the Noosa Hinterlands, and captures the memory of his Irish homeland. Uniting his past as a Ten Pound Pom migrant, with his life in the new world. The haze of the past solidifies into the present. Pennock paints his broad landscapes geographically, but also emotionally, he’d rather paint how the land made him feel, than the land itself. Pennock was the winner of the Alan Gamble Award, Mosman Art Prize (2005) and has been a finalist in the Len Fox Painting Award (2016), Mosman Art Prize (2014) and Fleurieu Peninsula Art Prize (2008, 2004).
Pennock’s works are more akin to mark-making, more about the paint than the line. He holds a fascination with how seemingly disruptive, intrusive marks on the canvas ‘find their way’, or how ‘an accent can be an intrusion but also works like a welcome interruption’ (1).
SOLD - OCTOBER 2020