# Herman Pekel 2023 Exhibition

ARTWORKS
# Early Evening, Katoomba
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# Reflections in the Shallows, Coxs River
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# Blue Mountains Bush with Saplings and Galah
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# Gleaming Afternoon
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# Lost, Blue Mountains
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# Yonder, Hawkesbury Lookout
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# Flash of Colour, Yarramundi
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# Luna Park from Lavender Bay
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# Golden Afternoon near Lithgow
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# Verdant Morning, Milthorpe
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# Shimmering Light, Hopkins River
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# Green and Gold, Kurrajong
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# Fleeting Colour, Bathurst Plains
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# Old Railway Line, Lavender Bay
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# Umber, Olive, Green and Grey, near Orange
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# Streak of Colour, Castlemaine
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# Soft Winter Light, Blackheath
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# Flooded Creek at Sunset, Yass
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# Golden Light, Jugiong
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# Rising Mists, Jamison Valley
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# After the Storm, Corryong
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# Standing Tall, Mt Victoria
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# Roundabout Katoomba
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# Gums at Eltham
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# Atmospheric Morning, Gundagai
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# Secluded Saplings at Dusk
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# Winter Flooding, Castlemaine
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# Awash with Colour, Hawkesbury
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# Shimmering Yarra River, Warrandyte
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# After the Rains, St Albans
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# Early Evening, Paddington
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# Swift Parrot, Kurrajong
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# Gum Saplings, Hawkesbury River
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# Late Afternoon Light, Hopkins River
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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 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 mediums 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

EXHIBITION catalogue
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