Roy De Maistre: The English Years 1930-1968

Roy De Maistre: The English Years 1930-1968

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Sandra Leveson is one of Australia's most distinctive contemporary women artists: her career spans over 30 years and encompasses a variety of styles and media. Influenced in the 1960s by geometric Op-art, Leveson worked initially as a teacher, printmaker and designer. However, in the 1970s she began to produce large paintings on canvas, inspired in part by American abstract expressionalism; she has since held numerous exhibitions in Texas as well as in her native Australia. In more recent times, while her style still remains somewhat American, she has drawn her inspiration primarily from the European and Australian landscape - gathering impressions in Giverny and Flanders, and in the wilderness of Kakadu. Fascinated by the soft European light which was so different from the clear light in Australia, Leveson discovered one of her personal icons - the wild Flanders poppy - in the wheat fields around the town of La Roche-Guyon. In many of her more recent works these poppies appear like flashes of red light in the luminescent landscape. This book examines the work of Sandra Leveson, whose paintings are now widely recognized for their evocative, abstract quality.

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