Ann Morton & Greg Daly Exhibition

Ann Morton Greg Daly

ANN MORTON GREG DALY

Lost Bear Gallery presents a new collection of still life paintings by Ann Morton, together with lustre glazed ceramics by Greg Daly.

The ceramics comprising Greg’s exhibition are integral components in each of Ann’s exhibition paintings.

ANN MORTON

Finding elements that make me want to grab my paintbrush has been a life long obsession. I see beauty from the natural world all around me, however, when it comes to the man-made objects in my paintings, I have always found it much harder to come across the textures, colours and forms that can make a composition sing. I would often go back to the handmade lace and tarnished silver to express a closer human connection.

Greg Daly’s ceramics!

I added a couple of gem-like blue and green pots to my painting collection some 30 years ago, and they have glowed in the shadows or shouted in the foreground of many of my paintings throughout the years.

It is wonderful working with Greg’s landscape-inspired ceramics and yet challenging to capture the earthy textures and subtleties.

Greg’s ceramics meld with the generally home grown and perfectly flawed fruit and flowers in my paintings, to create beauty and intricacies that intrigue and draw the observer into the painting.

Ann Morton

Photo: Greg Daly

GREG DALY

My studio is in central west New South Wales and the view from my studio is one that allows me to see from one horizon to the other. From first light to sunset, I watch the day’s light traversing this landscape, interacting with the atmosphere, the topography and the flora. A slow symphony of colour, ever changing.

This interaction is something akin to alchemy for me. The transmutation of the base elements of photons, air and earth into precious visions of beauty. I see the first rays of light through the morning mist, glimmering silver and gold. I see sunsets through clouds and haze, glowing red and purple like a precious stone. I see the midday sun shining from a clear blue sky, filtering through the eucalypts and illuminating the vegetation, sometimes lush, sometimes sun-bleached. A myriad of colours, some subtle, some overwhelming, never the same, always changing.

The elements I use in the lustre glazes, silver and copper especially, have their own alchemical responses as they interact with the heat and atmosphere of the kiln. And like the light and landscape that inspired them, they interact to produce ever changing colours and surfaces, distilling the essence of what I see and giving the light something new with which to play.

Each work in this exhibition captures a moment in the day where the alchemy of light has produced something magical.

Greg Daly

Photo: John Daly

Orchid oil on linen

102cm x 76cm

$19500

Wattle oil on linen

76cm x 84cm

$18000

Grevillea oil on linen

20cm x 25cm

$1800

Lamplight

The Red Pot oil on linen

61cm x 51cm

$9000

Grasses

Autumn oil on linen

76cm x 61cm

$16000

Hakea Laurina oil on linen

Cloud ceramic with lustre glaze

9cm x 10cm

$90

Grasses III

ceramic with lustre glaze

5cm x 17cm

$160