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Time and Presence

LEONI DUFF  

 

   

  

September 20 2021

to

October 23 2021  

 

 

 

Exhibition

  Time and Presence   

    LEONI DUFF       

There is an achingly beautiful and complex reality in life beyond the mundane.

We seem to rise to a bright and broad zenith so full of promise, but like a Shakespearean tragedy, beyond act four, we inevitably succumb to the last act; the hero’s tragic end. The play is over and we awaken to feel the cold shock as the curtain falls. 

There is, in every moment of loveliness, of pleasure, a promise of something solid... so much more...but as we crush this fruit between our teeth, its promise of real joy vaporises before it can be captured, like a morning mist before the sun.  Where is the solid landing for our feet, the shore of home that it promised?

My art is the response to this reality and experience of ‘being’… each picture attempts to hold the transient before a viewer, to open a window to one of these momentary, fleeting beauties… to record it and keep it, as it speaks for a very short time.

A deep gorge hidden away, a pair of pheasants resplendent in texture and colour…. A great dramatic sky… a powerful, surging and restless sea...the rugged face of an old artist, intense with perception and intelligence, capable and sensitive fingers...

then deep isolation in his last days after the loss of a wife.

Time and presence. 

Rain on the Ascent - Mt Victoria
Oil on canvas. 102 x 102cm. SOLD
Afternoon Storm - Riverside
Oil on canvas. 102 x 102cm. $8,900
Winter on The City
Oil on canvas. 102 x 102cm. $8,900
Restless Sea
Oil on canvas. 102 x 150cm. $10,500
Bright New Day
Oil on canvas. 60 x 150cm. SOLD
Golden Afternoon - Upper Blessington
Oil on canvas. 60 x 150cm. $9,200
Courage
Oil on canvas. 75 x 75cm. $5,800
Coming Home
Oil on canvas. 75 x 75cm. $5,800
Hidden Gorge
Oil on canvas. 102 x 75cm. $6,800
Last Minute on Charles
Oil on canvas. 75 x 75cm. SOLD
Simplicity
Oil on canvas framed. Image 35 x 65cm (frame 48 x 78cm) $5,900
Lemon Water
Oil on canvas framed. Image 35 x 65cm (frame 48 x 78cm) $5,900
Tom the Pilgrim
Pastel on panel framed. 102 x 81cm. SOLD
Landscape of a Face - Lloyd Rees
Charcoal and pastel on panel framed. Image 59 x 59cm (frame 87 x 88cm). Landscape of a Face-Portrait of Lloyd Rees drawn from ‘Lloyd Rees at 90, Northwood, Sydney’ 1985 by David Moore. National Portrait gallery Collection. $7,300
Last Days Heart and Hand
Charcoal and pastel on panel framed. Image 69 x 50cm (frame 97 x 76.5cm) $7,300
Golden Era
Charcoal and pastel on panel framed. Image 72 x 45cm (frame 84 x 56cm) $5,900
Girl in a Turban
Charcoal and pastel on panel framed. Image 46 x 30cm (frame 58 x 42cm) $2,900
Gift of Pheasant
Oil on canvas. 102 x 75cm. SOLD
Green Winter Apples
Pastel on panel framed. Image 75 x 48cm (frame 85.4 x 69.9cm). SOLD
Sunflowers
Pastel on panel framed. Image 47.5 x 33cm (frame 60.5 x 46cm) N/A
 

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