WARWICK FULLER A Peacock in Sheep Country
Photo: Ian Jones Photography. UK
FOREWORD
Warwick Fuller’s 2025 exhibition culminates a memorable 12 months for the now 77 year old artist; a period marked by unimagined career accolades.
In October 2024, Fuller accompanied King Charles III as the Official Tour Artist to Australia and Samoa. This was Fuller’s fourth Royal tour, following previous appointments by His Majesty in 2012, 2015 and 2018. At the conclusion of the 2024 tour, Fuller gifted one artwork, with King Charles and Queen Camilla each purchasing three paintings. Fuller now had 21 paintings in the King’s private collection, yet the pinnacle of his career was yet to be realised.
In July 2025, by invitation of the King, Fuller attended a Royal reception at Buckingham Palace. This was to celebrate the book launch of The Art of Royal Travel, Journeys with The King, together with an exhibition titled The King’s Tour Artists. This exhibition was displayed in the magnificent State Rooms at Buckingham Palace, open daily for public viewing during the northern hemisphere summer. Four of Fuller’s paintings were displayed in this exhibition. 12 pages of the 164 page hard-cover book are dedicated to Fuller and the tours he served; a legacy-defining acknowledgement.
Fuller’s new exhibition comprises 85 paintings and includes Australian landscapes, a suite of small paintings he painted on location in the UK during 2024 and 2025, as well as works painted during the 2024 Royal tour. The scale of the show is remarkable in terms of his creative output. It isn’t an intentionally big exhibition and many paintings were culled; there simply weren’t any of the selected artworks the artist was willing to exclude. And as prolific as Fuller is, this showing is a feat underpinned by years and years of disciplined practice. His technical skill and creative interpretation allow him to capture the landscape with a poetic simplicity, presenting nature scenes with unfiltered clarity.
Paradoxically, Fuller has titled his exhibition A Peacock in Sheep Country; serious paintings under the guise of whimsy. This title is surprisingly apt, for what could otherwise be a disparate collection of new work. A peacock symbolises various ideas in different cultures and is commonly associated with beauty, royalty, prosperity, rejuvenation and divinity. Contrastingly, sheep country describes vast swathes of pastoral lands in rural Australia, subject matter that has called out to the artist throughout his career. So perhaps Fuller is metaphorically highlighting the intoxicating beauty to be seen in any landscape, if one chooses to see. And just as the peacock is not native to Australian shores, this exhibition is not limited to antipodean paintings.
Conspicuously, the exhibition shares the title of one of the major works in the collection. Some time back when viewing one of Fuller’s paintings, a close friend commented that the vibrant eucalyptus regrowth sitting in front of silhouetted saplings, reminded her of a peacock. Weeks later when titling his exhibition paintings, Fuller remembered this conversation and named this painting A Peacock in Sheep Country, Molong. This is a reminder that what we see or how we interpret a painting is a uniquely personal experience. We are all humans and this is how it should be.
Geoff White Director, Lost Bear Gallery
Sun on Morning Mist, Little Hartley oil on canvas 46cm x 61cm 2025
Yarramundi Reach of Lake Burley Griffin oil on canvas 46cm x 61cm 2025
Billowing Skies, Limerick oil on canvas 30cm x 46cm 2025
St Marys, Rathkeale, Ireland oil on canvas 30cm x 30cm 2025
Passing Rain in a Dry Landscape, Gundaroo (sketch for) oil on canvas 46cm x 46cm 2025
A Peacock in Sheep Country, Molong oil on canvas 100cm x 100cm 2025
Hanging Rock over the Shoalhaven, Nowra oil on canvas 46cm x 41cm 2025
Solitary Banana Tree, Pleasure Point oil on canvas 46cm x 30cm 2025
Jacarandas at Circular Quay oil on canvas 23cm x 30cm 2024 (Royal Tour)
Kirribilli Jacarandas oil on canvas 30cm x 46cm 2024 (Royal Tour)
Mondo Rock, Cape St George (sketch for) oil on canvas 61cm x 46cm
Weather Beaten Banksia, near Vincentia oil on canvas 46cm x 46cm 2025
Photo: Neil Stevenson
Orphan Rock, Katoomba oil on canvas 100cm x 100cm 2025
Colour in the Cotswolds oil on canvas 30cm x 46cm 2025
Dappled Light, Waterloo Gardens, London oil on canvas 46cm x 30cm 2025
The Monkey’s Birthday, Tharwa (sketch for) oil on canvas 30cm x 46cm 2025
Clearing Afternoon near Molong oil on canvas 61cm x 91cm 2025
Bustling Sydney Harbour oil on canvas 30cm x 46cm 2024 (Royal Tour)
Sails at Sunrise (sketch for) oil on canvas 30cm x 46cm 2024 (Royal Tour)
Sails at Sunrise, Sydney Harbour oil on canvas 120cm x 180cm 2025
Sails in the Sunset, Sydney Harbour oil on canvas 120cm x 180cm 2025
Afternoon in the Gilmore Valley oil on canvas 61cm x 70cm 2025
Grand Afternoon in the Valley, Kanimbla oil on canvas 100cm x 120cm 2025
Distant Rain, Mindaribba oil on canvas 46cm x 61cm 2025
Roadside Blossoms, Little Hartley oil on canvas 100cm x 100cm 2025
Silverton Morning oil on canvas 61cm x 61cm 2025
We All Fall Down, Pleasure Point oil on canvas 30cm x 30cm 2025
Sweeping Cloud Shadows, Bathurst oil on canvas 30cm x 61cm 2025
Shoalhaven River from the Showground, Nowra oil on canvas 46cm x 61cm 2025
Into the Blue (sketch for) oil on canvas 30cm x 46cm 2025
Jervis Bay Sunrise oil on canvas 30cm x 46cm 2025
Green Fields of Ireland, near Limerick oil on canvas 30cm x 46cm 2025
Home Farm, Colton, Yorkshire oil on canvas 30cm x 46cm 2024
Sunrise over Jervis Bay, Seaman’s Beach oil on canvas 30cm x 30cm 2025
Striated Track, Molong oil on canvas 46cm x 46cm 2025
Autumn Storm, Tharwa oil on canvas 30cm x 30cm 2025
Bougainvillea in Mist, Georges River oil on canvas 91cm x 61cm 2025
Lazy Autumn Afternoon, ACT oil on canvas 46cm x 46cm 2025
Autumn Ablaze, Gundaroo oil on canvas 46cm x 30cm 2025
A Shower of Sunshine, Hampton (sketch for) oil on canvas 30cm x 30cm 2025
Autumn Coming On, Fuller’s Earth oil on canvas 30cm x 30cm 2025
Autumn Pastures, Gundaroo oil on canvas 30cm x 61cm 2025
Burnished Bark, Watton oil on canvas 46cm x 30cm 2025
Mondo Rock, Cape St George oil on canvas 120cm x 100cm 2025
A Chance of Rain, Tharwa Hills oil on canvas 46cm x 46cm 2025
The Old Bull Said… oil on canvas 61cm x 61cm 2025
Before the Sun, Tharwa oil on canvas 30cm x 30cm 2025
A Shower of Sunshine, Hampton oil on canvas 100cm x 100cm 2025
Grand Afternoon in the Valley, Kanimbla (sketch for) oil on canvas 46cm x 46cm 2025
A Fine Anzac Day Dawn, Tharwa (sketch for) oil on canvas 46cm x 30cm 2025
Curtains of Gold, Tharwa oil on canvas 30cm x 46cm 2025
Over The Murrumbidgee, Tharwa oil on canvas 46cm x 61cm 2025
Clearing Afternoon near Molong (sketch for) oil on canvas 30cm x 46cm 2025
A Light Overnight Fall, Hampton oil on canvas 30cm x 46cm 2025
Cows at the Dam, Bathurst oil on canvas 46cm x 61cm 2025
Grand Afternoon in the Valley, Kanimbla (study for) oil on canvas 46cm x 61cm 2025
A Peacock in Sheep Country, Molong (sketch for) oil on canvas 30cm x 30cm 2025
Passing Rain in a Dry Landscape, Gundaroo oil on canvas 90cm x 90cm 2025
Moody Morning near Abergwyngregyn, Wales oil on canvas 30cm x 46cm 2024
Bridge over the Avon, Warwickshire oil on canvas 30cm x 46cm 2025
Glowing Afternoon near Silverton oil on canvas 61cm x 91cm 2025
Morning Surf, Narrawallee oil on canvas 61cm x 91cm 2025
Veiled Hills near Rockley oil on canvas 46cm x 46cm 2025
Making Way for Stock, Hampton oil on canvas 61cm x 61cm 2025
Serene Morning Pastoral, Gilmore oil on canvas 61cm x 91cm 2025
Contented British Whites near Bathurst oil on canvas 46cm x 46cm 2025
Tidal Tracery, Green Patch oil on canvas 46cm x 46cm 2025
Shimmering Harbour from Admiralty House oil on canvas 46cm x 30cm 2024 (Royal Tour)
Storm over the Reef, Samoa oil on canvas 30cm x 46cm 2024 (Royal Tour)
Saltwater Air, Wombarra oil on canvas 61cm x 91cm 2025
Exeter from Nadderwater, Devon oil on canvas 30cm x 46cm 2024
Thunderclap Flight, Little Hartley oil on canvas 91cm x 61cm 2025
Resplendent Morning, Kanimbla oil on canvas 61cm x 91cm 2025
The Monkey’s Birthday, Tharwa oil on canvas 61cm x 91cm 2025
Wild Beauty in the Australian National Botanic Gardens oil on canvas 30cm x 46cm 2024 (Royal Tour)
Into the Blue, Mount Victoria oil on canvas 61cm x 91cm 2025
The Old Bull Said… Little Hartley (sketch for) oil on canvas 30cm x 30cm 2025
Shadows Cast, Kanimbla oil on canvas 46cm x 61cm 2025
Promising Sliver of Light, Kanimbla oil on canvas 20cm x 61cm 2025
Banks of the Cotter River, ACT oil on canvas 61cm x 46cm 2025
Hills over The Murrumbidgee, Tharwa oil on canvas 90cm x 90cm 2025
Threatening Skies near Molong oil on canvas 46cm x 61cm 2025
Sweeping Cloud Shadows, Bathurst oil on canvas 30cm x 61cm 2025
Warm Afternoon Light oil on canvas 61cm x 61cm 2025
Roadside Blossoms, Little Hartley (sketch for) oil on canvas 46cm x 46cm 2025