Peter Finlay, HARBOUR Our Views, 2023. Oil on linen. Courtesy: the artist and Incinerator Art Space, Sydney.

Peter Finlay paints from the remembered landscape of the harbour that he carries in his memory.

Drawing from fragments of nature and pieces of foreshores, Finlay’s oil paintings are carefully layered over several weeks. In this way, the works in HARBOUR: Our Views are transformed into an emotional and expressive abstract landscape style. Finlay’s paintings are inspired by the rhythm on the harbour front: the shore, the tide, wind, sun, boats, moorings, wharves and boat sheds. His work conveys a love of place and our transience in it that hold a universal significance and appeal.

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