"Warm Front" in foyer of SmithRanken Art Studio

"Warm Front" in foyer of SmithRanken Art Studio

Bernadette Smith has an extensive international exhibition record with solo shows in Berlin, San Francisco, Sydney, Perth and Singapore. Her work is included in collections in Germany, France, Britain, Singapore, Spain, Australia and the USA. She has been a finalist for the Mosman Art Prize, Fishers Ghost Art Award and was highly commended at the Gosford art prize. In 2020 she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from Sydney College of the Arts and featured in the 10th Canberra Festival of Art. Recently she was selected for an artist residency at Bundanon and has exhibited at Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Perth Centre for Photography, Newcastle Art Gallery and the State Library of NSW.  Her painting relates to the psychological and material traces inherent within the beachfront, coastal forests, littoral zones and hinterlands of Australia representing liminal spaces where the land meets the sea. The impasto surfaces and viscous fusions of oil paint achieved by constant reworking of the surface and underlying layers express the physicality of the land. Between cycles of fire, drought, floods and regrowth somehow the trees survive and eventually prosper revealing the corporeal legacy of the seasons but can never be taken for granted. These paintings need time to observe slowly allowing the layers of meaning communicate on an intuitive level.

Visit her studio in Alexandria, Sydney by appointment or email bernadettesmithart@yahoo.com.au for more info

Sirocco

Sirocco
oil on canvas, 50 x 70 cm

Hover

Hover
153 x 153 cm oil on canvas

River Crossing

River Crossing
'River Crossing' oil on canvas 120 x 120 cm

Whispers

Whispers
137 x 120 cm oil on canvas

Zone

Zone
91 x 91 cm oil on wood panel

Zaum

Zaum
oil on canvas 137 x 107 cm

Tropica

Tropica
1.5m x 1.5m oil on canvas

Terrain

Terrain
oil on canvas 130 x 130 cm

Verdure

Verdure
130 x 150 cm oil on canvas

Flux

Flux
120 x 137 cm, oil on canvas

Warm Front

Warm Front
150 x150 cm oil on canvas

Coast

Coast
120 x 120 cm oil on canvas

Day Into Night

Day Into Night
130 x 130 cm oil on canvas

Southerly Change

Southerly Change
152 x112 cm oil on canvas

Break

Break
oil on canvas 152 x 137 cm

Red Wind

Red Wind
120 x 150 cm oil on canvas

Sojourn

Sojourn
137 x 137 cm oil on canvas

Equivalence 2

Equivalence 2
oil on canvas 121 x 152 cm

Fluidity

Fluidity
137 x 137 cm oil on canvas

Undergrowth

Undergrowth
130 x 115 cm oil on canvas

Nocturne 2

Nocturne 2
120 x 120 cm oil on canvas

Vector

Vector
oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm

Flood Tide

Flood Tide
oil on canvas 137 x 137

Screen

Screen
180 x 90 cm oil on canvas

Ghost Gums

Ghost Gums
100 x 180 cm oil on canvas

Purple Rain

Purple Rain
183 x 83 cm oil on canvas

Grain

Grain
90 x 180 cm oil on canvas

Subterannean

Subterannean
oil on canvas 101 x 168 cm

Minor Key

Minor Key
3 panels 90 x 60 cm oil on canvas

States of Being

States of Being
90 x 180 cm oil on canvas

Timeline

Timeline
Triptych oil on canvas each panel 61 x 91 cm

Nightfall

Nightfall
3 oil on canvas panels 100 x 40 cm each

Sun Storm

Sun Storm
oil on wood, 100 x 90 cm

Pattern

Pattern
oil on canvas 3 panels 35 x 40cm each

Kakadu

Kakadu
150 x 120 cm

Synergy

Synergy
acrylic on canvas 120 x 150

Incoming Tide

Incoming Tide
76 x 61 cm, oil on canvas

After the Fire

After the Fire
After the Fire

The paintings below are sold

The following works are sold but commissions are available.

Capricornia

Capricornia
oil on canvas 150 x 120 cm

Stratum

Stratum
oil on canvas 150 x 150 cm

Refuge

Refuge
90 x 180 cm oil on canvas

River Run

River Run
oil on canvas 110 x 110 cm

Veils

Veils
oil on canvas

Tidal Race

Tidal Race
150 x150 cm oil on canvas

Emergence

Emergence
122 x 122 cm oil on canvas

Primavera diptych

Primavera diptych
oil on canvas 2 panels 100 x 150 cm each

Morning Light

Morning Light
oil on canvas 112 x 122cm

Reef Break

Reef Break
137 x 137 cm, oil on canvas

Headlands

Headlands
0il on canvas 120 x 150 cm

Passing Clouds

Passing Clouds
oil on canvas triptych

Setting Sail

Setting Sail
110 x 130 cm oil/acrylic on canvas

Harlequin

Harlequin
oil on canvas 180 x 90cm

Primavera 1

Primavera 1
oil on canvas 100 x 150 cm

Reef Break diptych

Reef Break diptych

Ocean Study

Ocean Study
150 x 150 cm oil on canvas

Nanyang

Nanyang
240 x 120 cm oil on canvas

Stone Country

Stone Country

Sea Change

Sea Change
oil on canvas 152 x 122 cm

Excavation

Excavation
oil on canvas 150 x 150 cm

Flame 2

Flame 2
oil on canvas painting

Shoreline

Shoreline
120 x 120 cm oil on canvas

Blue Lace

Blue Lace
oil on canvas 101 x 101 cm

Sea Change at Hyams

Sea Change at Hyams
150 x 120 cm oil on canvas

Tidelines

Tidelines
3 panels oil on canvas

Incarnation

Incarnation
oil on canvas 213 x 15 cm

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Be Here Now - Small Works at Fire Gallery 1st August till 12th

"I am interested in exploring the sensual depths of impasto surfaces and the viscous fusions that can occur through oil painting. Form itself becomes content in this process-based painting. All that remains is an alchemical residue." Bernadette Smith

Small Art Works and installation by Bernadette Smith and Mark Elliot-Ranken

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