Betra Fraval, Desert Road, 2024. Oil on linen, 138 x 112cm. Courtesy: the artist and James Makin Gallery, Melbourne.

In her latest body of work Betra Fraval investigates the symbolic landscape. Taking her cue from artists such as Gauguin, Munch and Van Gogh, Fraval situates her landscapes with vivid colour and mark-making to express personal visions and internal states. Fraval’s graphic forms are not a reduction of the landscape, but are instead an opening-up, allowing for improvisation and self-expression.

Through her paintings, Fraval graphically and poetically interprets the landscapes she encounters. Mountains of the Mind and its meditations upon the intersecting, interwoven landscapes of the internal and the external worlds followed a recent trip by Fraval to the Northern Territory.

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