Your world is ever new study, 2022, James Drinkwater
Oil on hardboard, 49cm x 43cm
Provenance: Nanda Hobbs Gallery, Sydney NSW
James Drinkwater is a Newcastle artist who produces painting, sculpture, assemblage and collage. Drinkwater makes work about place, intimacy and memory. Drinkwater studied at the National Art School, Sydney, before moving to Melbourne and then Germany. His work is held in major public and private collections both nationally and internationally, including the Macquarie Group Collection, Artbank, Allens law firm, the Newcastle Art Gallery, and private collections in New York, Singapore, Germany and the UK. In 2014 Drinkwater won the Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship.
“James Drinkwater’s paintings are distinctly his own. They are richly patterned like an intriguing carpet – the shapes varied and inventive, the colour subtle with strong contrasts of light and dark and warm sonorous passages. The shapes dance – the movement of the boy dancing or of the sea? There are glimpses of the ocean, the beach, the dark rocks or the shadows in a room. As James says they are about memory and intimacy and one’s eye can wander through the paintings imagining a multiplicity of images in this richly layered world”. - Elisabeth Cummings (1)