Amanda van Gils Views from a Speeding Train
Paintings from 2008
by Amanda van Gils
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About the Book
Amanda van Gils is an Australian painter whose beautiful landscape paintings offer an interesting and compelling interpretation of the landscape genre.
The 20 paintings and 14 studies featured in this book are from her most recent series, "Views from a Speeding Train". These paintings were conceived during van Gils’ first trip to Europe where she exhibited in Berlin before traveling via Eurail throughout France, Spain and Italy as well as to Amsterdam and London.
Travelling by rail between art museums and cities was a new experience for van Gils who was struck by the distance between herself in the fast carriage and the actual landscape. Face pressed against glass views, filtered by windows and blurred by the speed of the trains were enticing yet out of reach. The sensation of separation and longing are here captured to exaggerated effect.
The paintings in ‘Views from a Speeding Train’ possess a strange and subtle melancholia - as in a sense that none of us can be sure of where 'times' are leading - metaphorically, spiritually, politically, economically - just this fast train we are all on in the early 21st century.
The book also contains an Artist's Statement and a CV of exhibiting history (current at 2008)
The 20 paintings and 14 studies featured in this book are from her most recent series, "Views from a Speeding Train". These paintings were conceived during van Gils’ first trip to Europe where she exhibited in Berlin before traveling via Eurail throughout France, Spain and Italy as well as to Amsterdam and London.
Travelling by rail between art museums and cities was a new experience for van Gils who was struck by the distance between herself in the fast carriage and the actual landscape. Face pressed against glass views, filtered by windows and blurred by the speed of the trains were enticing yet out of reach. The sensation of separation and longing are here captured to exaggerated effect.
The paintings in ‘Views from a Speeding Train’ possess a strange and subtle melancholia - as in a sense that none of us can be sure of where 'times' are leading - metaphorically, spiritually, politically, economically - just this fast train we are all on in the early 21st century.
The book also contains an Artist's Statement and a CV of exhibiting history (current at 2008)
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Features & Details
- Primary Category: Fine Art
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Project Option: Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
# of Pages: 38 - Publish Date: Mar 06, 2009
- Language English
- Keywords john leslie art prize, mosman art prize, tattersall's landscape art prize, fluerieu art prize, oil painting, painting, artist, australian, australia, contemporary, landscape
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About the Creator
Amanda van Gils
Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
An Australian artist specialising in oil painting, Amanda van Gils has participated in over 60 exhibitions including solo, group and art prize selections both in Australia and Internationally. Based in Melbourne, Amanda completed Post Graduate studies at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 2000 and holds an undergraduate degree from Monash University. Amanda van Gils has recently received acclaim for her series of works "Views from a Speeding Train" which has been made into a book available through Blurb.com.