David Collins, Light in the Mangrove, 2019. Oil on canvas, 74 x 93cm. Courtesy: the artist and Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney.

David Collins is a landscape painter who has lived on an island in the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales, since 1987. Just Relations delves into colour and line: drawing connections between the natural environment in which he lives and the meditative possibilities of immersing oneself in the splendour of a moment.

For Collins, painting and drawing streams from the ongoing closeness he feels with the environment. Loose and languid lines, much like the Mangrove roots that edge the Hawkesbury River surrounding the artist’s home, sprawl across the canvas in search of connection. Reaching out, they intertwine within the fold of intersections; drawing relationships between marks, colours, spaces and tones.

Exhibition opens: 6–8pm Wednesday 31 July 2019

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