Harbouring Light

The latest solo exhibition from Orange-based artist Esther Eckley, Harbouring Light is now open at Michael Reid Murrurundi – offering a dazzling escape onto Sydney Harbour and bringing bursts of luminosity to the gallery. In this radiant new series, the artist turns her gaze to the city’s glittering bays and inlets, where bobbing sailboats drift through impasto seas and sun-struck skies.

Sweeps of sky blue, milky white and pretty sorbet tones are laid on thick with palpable energy, capturing the intensity of light in the warmer months – that almost blinding daze when water, sky and city seem to shimmer into one.

A celebration of the salubrious pleasures of summer by the sea, Eckley’s new paintings hover between observation and sensation, distilling harbourside vistas into richly textured fields of colour and light. Lighthouses and other landmarks appear as if glimpsed through sun-glare on the water, inviting viewers to linger in the heat-hazed, salt-tinged atmosphere of a perfect day in the Harbour City.

For enquiries, please email amandamackinlay@michaelreid.com.au