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Country |
Ancient
Land I |
Where
The Goanna Hunts |
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Where
Eagles Dare |
Kakadu
Terrain
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Great
Southern Land III |
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Kakadu
Splendour |
The Gap
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Kimberley
Colour II |
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Terra
Australis III
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Terra
Australis I |
Kakadu
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Kakadu
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Robert Holcombe
'When I look at landscape, the objective contact is replaced with visual sensation, I see the landscape in terms of line, form, colour and space; my aim is to exploit that line, form, colour and space.'
Robert Holcombe
THE ART OF ROBERT HOLCOMBE
'All of Holcombe’s work is imbued with a strong, often insistent sense of place, having its origin in the prolonged contact the artist boasts with the land. This contact consists not so much of rigid clinical observation, but rather, of communion with the land itself, providing Holcombe with both conscious and subconscious impressions from which to draw inspiration. The various elements of the land form the vocabulary of the landscape artist, serving simultaneously as both inspiration and language. Holcombe uses the constituents of any given scene as a vehicle for transmitting his concepts of form, line and colour. Holcombe will often refine the various structural and textural components of his work down to their primal elements, and in this practice colour is no exception.'
Jason Sprague, Melbourne (Freelance Arts Writer)