Let the trees whisper you their secrets... new vibrant abstract paintings on exhibition

“Let the trees whisper you their secrets

Let the breeze hold your sigh

Let the light dance through you

Let the birds sing you alight”

- A poem and a prayer for you.

Vibrant Australian landscape paintings by Australian abstract expressionist painter, Rose Wintergreen, on exhibition now at Brunswick Street Gallery

Each line is also the name of a painting.

All painted outside, serenaded by nature.

“Let the trees whisper you their secrets”, vibrant Australian landscape art by Australian abstract expressionist painter, Rose Wintergreen, on exhibition now at Brunswick Street Gallery, mixed media on stretched canvas, 30.5cmx30.5cm

“Let the breeze hold your sigh”, vibrant Australian landscape art by Australian abstract expressionist painter, Rose Wintergreen, on exhibition now at Brunswick Street Gallery, mixed media on stretched canvas, 30.5cmx30.5cm

“Let the light dance through you”, vibrant Australian landscape art by Australian abstract expressionist painter, Rose Wintergreen, on exhibition now at Brunswick Street Gallery, mixed media on stretched canvas, 30.5cmx30.5cm

“Let the birds sing you alight”, vibrant Australian landscape art by Australian abstract expressionist painter, Rose Wintergreen, on exhibition now at Brunswick Street Gallery, mixed media on stretched canvas, 30.5cmx30.5cm

All paintings are 30.5cm x 30.5cm on stretched canvas, ready to hang with hanging wire already attached on the back, signed on the front, and include a signed Certificate of Authenticity, $620 each.

See them in person

On exhibition as part of the Small Works Prize at Brunswick Street Gallery, 7-21 Jan, 2022.

Please note: the gallery is not wheelchair accessible.
(If you would like to see more detail but can’t get to the gallery, get in touch and I can send you more photos and video closeups.)

How to buy

7 - 21 January 2022: contact the gallery in person, by phone, or by email (details below).

22 January 2022 onwards: contact me directly.

The gallery accepts all card payments in person or over the phone.

Brunswick Street Gallery

Level 1 & 2, 322 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, VIC

(03) 8596 0173

10am - 6pm Tues to Sun (closed Mon)

You can also email them here.

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I would love to know, what do you feel when you look at these paintings?

Wishing you peace and love in this time,

Rose

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New painting on exhibition, "Unstoppable"

I grew up being told that creating is self-indulgent, and that choosing a creative life would destine me to financial ruin and misery. For years, I relinquished all my life choices to fear and anxiety, choosing “safe” things like working as a statistician in a grey office.

I fought the melodies and imagery that yearned to be born through me. I learned the hard way that these “safe” choices were actually toxic, making me unwell and denying the juiciest parts of life: connection to myself and others.

I make art and music as a daily act of rebellion against my inner critic and fear, building a relationship of trust with the unknown, and letting the creative muse use my body as its instrument.

I painted “Unstoppable” whilst listening to music and dancing, feeling like I could do anything, and imagining how my life will be when I learn how to live it from this place every day.

Watch me paint “Unstoppable” - timelapse painting video

See “Unstoppable” on exhibition

“Unstoppable” is on exhibition in March as part of the group show “Pretty Pennies”, presented by the Fitzroy Art Collective and Bendigo Bank Carlton.

Come and celebrate opening night with us this Friday, 6 March, 2020, 6.30pm-9pm at 282 Lygon St, Carlton.

Group art show: "All You Can Eat", Brunswick Street Gallery

Join me in celebrating the opening of this group show I am a part of.

I have a juicy large painting in this, called "Heart Bursts Like Pomegranate", 18" x 18" on canvas, which will be available for purchase through the gallery.

About “Heart Bursts Like Pomegranate”

“Heart Bursts Like Pomegranate” (mixed media on 18” x 18” canvas) is a bittersweet ode to abundance and joy: coming home in the late afternoon, starving from forgetting to have lunch, sitting in the warmth of the last golden autumn sunlight and tearing into a plate full of pomegranates with bare hands.

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Detail: “Heart Bursts Like Pomegranate”, acrylic on canvas, 18” x 18”, Rose Wintergreen, 2019

The flavours are punctuated by the zing of mandarin morsels and a freeze-dried strawberry generously coated in white chocolate, a decadent surprise offering from a housemate. A warm, sweet-tart creamy dance of jewels and flesh, draped in golden light that could disappear at any moment and transform to a sad blue chill.

Completed outside over a week of afternoons in the last of the autumn sunlight, Wintergreen worked from three different variations of a still life of fruit to build and explore multiple layers of colour and meaning, eating whilst painting to stay connected to the flavours:

• For the first variation, the fruit was whole, to capture the feeling of promise (painted with acrylic).

• For the second, the fruit had been devoured and nothing was left except discarded skin and pith, to capture the messiness and impending grief of having eaten too much too quickly (drawn without looking at the canvas using paint marker).

• The third was an arrangement freshly cut with a knife, to celebrate the pattern repeats of the jewels of the pomegranates (painted with acrylics and over drawn with water soluble pastels and paint markers).

Colours were chosen to portray the flavours and the sensation of textures in the mouth and on the hands and skin rather than as seen.

About the show 

An ode to all things home-cooked, store bought and take away, All You Can Eat brings together artists from a range of disciplines to serve up a visual feast honouring all that’s edible. Featured artists: Alex Vasic, Alexia Novella, Andrea Valdivia, Belinda Hearn, BillieJustice Thomson, Brendan Hehir, Caitlin Poduska, Caroline Esbenshade, Christine Lewis, Daniel Schache, Di Diddle, Elsie Dusting, Emily Amaryllis, Erin Reynolds, Eugene vonNagy, Gemma Mitting, Heidi FitzGerald, Henry Trumble, HugoMathias, I Make Soft Food , Jasmine Poole & Chris Sawers, JBKnibbs, Jo Ryan, Jorja Leary, Karla Andreica, Karlina Mitchell, Laurence Usher Ceramics, Liu Liling, Maggie Parkes, MattChun, Meg Kolac, Mike Adey, Natalie Blom, Nathalia Suizu, Olivia York, Paula Maggs, Plush Magic, Prudence Illingworth,Rachel Doller, Rebecca Tristenne Murphy, Rita Attwood, Rose Wintergreen, Sam Stevens, Sarah Zilberman, Shannon Mary, Tegan Iversen and Timothy Perkins.

Exhibition dates

26 July – 11 August 2019

Opening night: Friday 26 July 6–9pm

Address: Brunswick Street Gallery

Level 1, 322 Brunswick St

Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia

Gallery Hours: 10am-6pm Tuesday – Sunday (Closed Monday)