Meet this month's feature artist, Rick Cochrane

Oil painter, sculptor, printmaker, charcoal life and landscape drawer. For the last 19 years I have run a weekly life drawing session at Canberra Art Workshop where I also teach oil painting.
For those wanting one on one coaching I can run individual sessions in my straw bale studio in Weston ACT.
Currently I am working on a major body of work, making paintings of the Murrumbidgee River and the associated nature, influences and meaning for both first nations and european society. I intend exhibiting this body of work late 2024 along with an accompanying self-published journal on the narratives behind the paintings, history and environmental consequences.

Tell us a little bit about your work

About my art practice
For me a painting is a two way conversation between the painting and its viewing audience.
"Like an elegant woman it should not reveal all about itself at a single glance".
I think most of my best work comes from accidents or mistakes in the painting process, showing me a new pathway of possibilities. I've never been afraid to experiment avoiding the trap of avoiding ther comfort of tried and comfortable.
Painting can be a lonely business, fraught with doubts and failures along with super highs and lows and
it is truly important to have the support and reflections offered by fellow artist sharing the same experiences .Throughout history painters have been mentored by older ones who have experienced these things before.
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