HERMAN PEKEL
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HERMAN PEKEL
1 APRIL – 14 MAY 2023
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Photo: Geoff White
ARTIST STATEMENT
I’ve always been a painter, right back to my early teenage years. Paint is like an addiction; its tactile quality, the smell and the feel. Forty years later, I still feel obsessed. And painting has been good to me; a career that has sustained me. I enjoy interacting with people and it has also provided opportunities to travel.
As a landscape painter, I don’t set out to photographically record nature. My approach is to create a version of a nature that can be believable, as if it was solely painted from natural surroundings. The subject is of less consequence than the simple act of applying paint; my paintings are rarely literal interpretations of a scene. Although my current work starts plein air, generally in a natural setting, the paintings will often evolve and include a composite of several locations; perhaps the foreground from one location and the background from another. In larger studio works, these locations can be hundreds of kilometres apart.
I also enjoy the challenge of working with different types of paint and sometimes find it stimulating to combine mediums within a painting. Painting in watercolours demands a different, almost opposite technique to painting in oils. With watercolour, your lights are very precious and the opportunity for reworking washes is limited.
I approach painting so it is both stimulating and challenging. As long as the shapes, colours and tones within the picture plane harmonise, I feel energised. And my obsession can continue.
Herman Pekel March 20235
6 Blue Mountains
and
oil on board 60cm x 60cm $3800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
Bush with Saplings
Galah
7 Reflections in the Shallows, Coxs River oil on board 60cm x 60cm $3800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
8 Lost, Blue Mountains oil on canvas 120cm x 91cm $7800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
9 Gleaming Afternoon watercolour on cotton rag 77cm x 106cm $5800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
10 Shimmering Light, Hopkins River oil and acrylic on cotton rag 54cm x 63cm $3800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
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Yonder, Hawkesbury Lookout oil on canvas
97cm x 195cm
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$12500
12 Early Evening, Katoomba oil on board 80cm x 80cm $4800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
13 Luna Park from Lavender Bay oil on board 94cm x 80cm $5500 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
14 Golden Afternoon near Lithgow oil on board 70cm x 73cm $4500 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
15 Verdant Morning, Milthorpe oil and acrylic on cotton rag 77cm x 106cm $5800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
16 Flash of Colour, Yarramundi oil on board 60cm x 122cm $5500 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
17 Late Afternoon Light, Hopkins River oil and acrylic on cotton rag 55cm x 36cm $2800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
18 Green and Gold, Kurrajong oil and acrylic on cotton rag 55cm x 36cm $2800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
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Colour, Bathurst
195cm
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Fleeting
Plains oil on canvas 97cm x
$12500
20 After the Rains, St Albans watercolour on cotton rag 77cm x 106cm $5800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
21 Umber, Olive, Green and Grey, near Orange watercolour on cotton rag 77cm x 106cm $5800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
22 Roundabout Katoomba oil on board 80cm x 80cm $4800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
23 Soft Winter Light, Blackheath oil and acrylic on cotton rag 77cm x 106cm $5800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
24 Flooded Creek at Sunset, Yass oil and acrylic on cotton rag 17cm x 54cm $1800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
25 Golden Light, Jugiong oil and acrylic on cotton rag 36cm x 55cm $2800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
26 Rising Mists, Jamison Valley oil on canvas 120cm x 91cm $7800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
27 After the Storm, Corryong watercolour on cotton rag 77cm x 106cm $5800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
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Tall, Mt Victoria oil and acrylic on
rag 55cm x 36cm $2800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
Standing
cotton
29 Streak of Colour, Castlemaine oil on board 60cm x 60cm $3800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
30 Awash with Colour, Hawkesbury oil on canvas 120cm x 91cm $7800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
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Shimmering Yarra River, Warrandyte oil on board 70cm x 73cm $4500
32 Secluded Saplings at Dusk oil on canvas 195cm x 97cm $12500 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
33 Winter Flooding, Castlemaine watercolour on cotton rag 77cm x 106cm $5800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
watercolour on cotton rag
77cm x 106cm $5800
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Gums at Eltham
35 Gum Saplings, Hawkesbury River oil and acrylic on cotton rag 55cm x 36cm $2800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
36 Old Railway Line, Lavender Bay oil on board 80cm x 80cm $4800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
37 Early Evening, Paddington oil on board 60cm x 122cm $5500 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
38 Swift Parrot, Kurrajong oil on board 70cm x 73cm $4500 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
39 Atmospheric Morning, Gundagai oil and acrylic on cotton rag 36cm x 55cm $2800 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
HERMAN PEKEL
2023 Exhibition of Landscape Paintings
1 APRIL – 14 MAY 2023
Published: 27th March 2023
Photography: Silversalt Photography
Catalogue design: Geoff White
LOST BEAR GALLERY
Lost Bear Gallery
98 Lurline Street, Katoomba NSW 2780
Ph. +612 4782 1220
Open from 10am daily info@lostbeargallery.com.au
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