Road To Black Lake

Brent Shegog b1960, Australian
Oil on canvas, 140cm x 117cm.  

Melbourne based figurative artist.  

After leaving his birthplace of Queenstown Tasmania as a small child, subsequent visits back to the West Coast of Tasmania to Gormanstown, now a ghost town, and Queenstown in particular have left an indelible mark on the artist's work. The area was formerly mined for copper and vegetation was killed off by the smelting process. What remained was a barren rocky "moonscape" which became part of the attraction of this area. Several years of living on the isolated Bass Strait islands of King and Flinders Islands have also influenced the artist.
Artistic influences that have fed Brent's imagination and helped contribute to the style and imagery of his works include Edvard Munch, Jackson Pollock, Peter Booth, Frank Auerbach, Pierre Puvis De Chavannes and Arnold Bocklin. All have, in some small way, enriched artistically or reinforced the direction of the artist's work.  Individual works such as De Chavanne's "the Poor Fisherman" (Circa 1881), reflect a similar pictorial mood. The brooding angst reflected in both the colour and pictorial imagery of Munch’s work also has some similar parallels.

Price: Category B