Gillian Ellett Banks OAM | Natural Forms in Landscape

 

11 September – 17 October 2026

Special Opening event 5.30pm Friday 11 September

All welcome. FREE

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 “Landscape is more than the visual. It evokes all the senses, and as such, my response is to record the emotional impact, then hint at the visual clues. My aim is to synthesis the elements of the essential form into the purest statement of colour as form while retaining the original emotional impact. When image and reality have a corresponding impact on the viewer, then my work is done.

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Using a minimalist approach, I attempt a general statement. I work intensely, often on many canvases at once, ensuring spontaneity and robust imagery. This enables an editing process to take place, a selection of the main elements with no time for superfluous detail. Often a composite of viewpoints, where a floating heat shimmer or tranquil comfort pervades the canvas, and as such the radiating heat of an oppressive atmosphere can be seen to out weigh huge rock masses and escarpments".

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“Symbols of the landscape are the furniture of the subconscious”. Sir Kenneth Clarke.

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“You know the moment a painting is complete when the surface tension ‘zings’ it all together”.  - Gillian Ellett Banks 2026 

 

Image: Gillian Ellett Banks, Fig Tree NT, 2009 Oil on stretched canvas

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