Guido Maestri is running up his studio stairs, in the Sydney suburb of Marrickville, phone in hand, ready to face another day pondering his large-scale, textural, almost sculptural paintings of ...

So why did his paintings of the dingo and kangaroo — some of the earliest European representations of Australian animals — look so strange? ‘To compare it… would be impossible’ ...

"To be an Australian landscape painter is to be an explorer," he said after donating several of his works to a regional NSW gallery. Sydney sun, 1965, John Olsen. Oil on three plywood panels.

Unconsciously, I overlay the hues of the Australian landscape onto my paintings of the British landscape in order to tone the gaudiness down – much like the English painters who conversely ...

Artist Wayne Elliott tells a story in his Australian landscape paintings Artist Wayne Elliott tells captivating stories through his colourful interpretation of landscapes. He shares what he loves ...

To truly understand the hold that landscape painting has always exerted on Australian art, there’s no better method than to go feral for a week in a remote part of the continent and soak up some ...

Acclaimed Australian artist John Olsen dead at 95. ... Nick Mitzevich said Olsen was one of the nation’s greatest artists who created unique quintessentially Australian landscapes.

In 1772, Joseph Banks commissioned the foremost painter of animals in England, George Stubbs, to paint a dingo and a kangaroo. To our modern eyes, the paintings lack the vitality and strength of ...