Julie McCurry usually starts her works observing the landscape en plein air, at this point using gouache to capture the dramatic colours of the Australian bush. The artist says she prefers not to use photography to record her subjects. “It stifles my freedom to use memory and sensation of being in a place”. From her impressions she creates fully-fledged recollections of her time in the landscape, informed by visual cues as much as by her experience of being within that moment.

Read more in Art Edit 16 May 2024