SYLVIE CARTER
Category: Painting
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MONARO Memories
Who doesn’t love the spectacular views of the Monaro plains. I’ve painted three works of this region and each one left me with indelible memories of the windswept landscape. On the road to Baroona was a cool ;en plein air’ oil painting study, which I completed in 2023. One painting captures a passing storm in…
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Missing Painting
READ ON if you want to discover this rather strange and unique story about my now missing portrait. It was going to be my entry in the 2024 Archibald Art Prize along with a number of portrait exhibition opportunities. No More Mysteriously my portrait of the beautiful and amazing “Victoria Pearce” 1270 x 1270mm Oil…
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Lake And Beyond Exhibition
An exciting Canberra exhibition is for all those lovers of art, nature and birds. SAVE THE DATES Exhibition Runs from 8 September – 20 October 2024 Yarralumla Gallery and Oaks Brasserie, 36 Robert Boden Grove, Yarralumla, Canberra In exactly 20 days from today, I will be hosting the exhibition ‘Lake and Beyond’ with fellow artist…
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Last Mission
Oil on Board, W 95cm x H 60cm. Excited as my portrait of my late father’s first cousin, F/O James Joseph Battle and his co-pilot F/O Alfred Campbell Briant has been selected in the Gallipoli Art Prize 2024. I was inspired to capture the spirit of loyalty, respect, love of country, courage and comradeship shown…
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Chance
In my portrait of Joe, I explore the underlying theme of chance. I endeavored to capture his spirit and character forged in part from his difficult childhood. I wanted to show his relaxed demeanor, inner strength and passion for acting by providing a visual coherence between his past, present and future.
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Rapt – Award Winning Composer
Margaret Brandman is the accomplished Australian pianist and recording artist, accredited piano teacher, award-winning composer, arranger, and music educator. In her portrait, I aimed to capture her energy ‘grooving’ to one of her many engaging Latin-American rhythmical compositions
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Honouring Corporal Ernest Corey
Finalist in the Gallipoli Art Prize 2023. “Ernest Albert Corey, originally from Numeralla, was one of the most decorated men of World War 1 and the only soldier in the British Commonwealth to be awarded the Military Medal four times.”
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Life Drawing and Painting Portraits Workgroup
I am excited to be soon be convening a new untutored workgroup with the Art Society of Canberra (‘ASOC’). ‘Life Drawing and Painting Portraits’ on Mondays between 1.30pm – 4.30pm. at Studio D, M16 Artspace, 21 Blaxland Crescent in Griffith Canberra. If you are an artist and interested it’s easy to register. Simply email me…
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Upcoming Gallipoli Art Prize 2022
It has been a long journey, preparing, researching, then painting, framing and now delivering my small painting ‘Surveyors of Merauke’ into the Gallipoli Art Prize 2022. I reckon if my Dad and his mates were still alive, they would be happy to have a slice of their story during WWII caught in my painting.
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New Portraits Underway
Preliminary sketch of one of my current portrait subjects. It is amazing though how much thinking goes into a portrait, for example I started planning for one of my portrait projects early in 2021 and only last week, after the Zoom shoot and about four days of sketching and going through hundreds of images and…
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QPRC Art Prize Exhibition
What a great experience to have my landscape painting ‘WILD GRASSES AND DUCK AT WINGECARRIBEE CREEK’ hung in the Queanbean Palarang Council Art Prize Exhibition.
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Duck Takes Flight at Wingecarribee Creek
I recently sat down to paint this swelling creek at Bowral, or should I say half way between Bowral and Mossvale. On a sunny, warm summers day, I gazed across the field of wild grasses and this startled wild duck in flight. It reminded me of the beautiful words in Lola Ridge’s poem, so I…
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Plein Air Painting in Bowral
If you are love to explore and spend time surrounded by beautiful gardens and all things historically Australian, then you might like to keep an eye out on my ‘Historic Houses and Gardens‘ website page. I have carefully listed just a few of the many spots often included in Australia’s National Trust and Heritage sites.…
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Setting Creative Goals for 2021
With the new year well underway I recognise how important it is to set some new and exciting creative challenges and goals going forward. Here are just a few goals keeping me inspired and growing. I would love to hear yours?
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Journeying with Arthur Streeton
Streeton Exhibition – 7 Nov 2020 – 14 Feb 2021 Limited number of timed tickets now available for extra sessions: 8-10am Friday-Sunday, 5-10pm Saturday. If you already have an untimed ticket, it is valid at any time. Last week I travelled back to see the Arthur Streeton Exhibition for the second time. The exhibition was…