Design and Art Australia Online

'His early training was in traditional landscape painting, predominantly in watercolour: over the years and since working in oil, there has been a gradual refinement of those early approaches and a general move towards abstraction and the 'field’ works where the complexity of surface marks creates an atmosphere.’

'Doug finds atmosphere very important in establishing a mood in the work. This can shift subtly from painting to painting by the gradual shift of colours. The complex layered paint surfaces enables Doug to control the luminosity and translucency of the paint which in turn alters the atmospheric feel of the work.’

'The creation of meaning in the work hangs by a delicate thread, bound up in paint, the metaphors of signs and symbols, all attempting to make a conduit complete between the artist, the painting and the spectator. I sometimes refer to this as the fragile triangle.’

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Date written:

2021

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2021