Meet this month's feature artist, Ross Andrews

My landscapes are based on a drawing practice that began as the son of professional artists, during their brief marriage.

During my career in print media and TV science and parliamentary journalism, my informal art training began with night art classes at the Canberra School of Art.

Today, I continue my professional art studies at workshops and courses with the Australian and overseas teachers I admire most.

I draw and paint at locations across southern Australia and in the central deserts and Top End.

The places that inspire my work, especially the little-known, secret places, reveal clues to the spirit, balance and resilience that makes landscapes Australian.

The glow and vivid colours in my landscapes are an essay on ‘what is’ – the experienced realities of an ancient land under strong light and clear skies.
The colours I find in nature are emotional clues to the living personalities of our landscapes.

Tell us a little bit about your work

My drawings and acrylic landscapes build on the bones and grit of Australia’s abstract resilience.

It’s warm over cool.
Nature over manmade.
Dramas of light over dark.
And big forms over small.
I don’t paint vistas.
These landscapes are intimate.

My first choice is the magic middle distance. With its tree and rock forms. Its cloud-shadows. And, in riverbends, I find the elbows of this land.
Forms jostle and swim into abstract shapes of their own choosing.
On the oldest continent, natural forms grow weird.
Some even unveil their undrawn bony skeletons.

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