Broad Horizons

Among the most adored and in-demand artists in the Michael Reid stable, Lucy Vader returns to Murrurundi for her next first solo exhibition, Broad Horizons. 

A true iconoclast of pastoral painting, Vader’s deeply saturated scenes burst with energy, exuberance and vibrant undulations of paint, appearing as though they might momentarily break open to roiling undercurrents of pure colour that flow freely from one canvas to the next.

Reflecting her deep and enduring affinity for rural life, the artist imbues these bucolic pictures with dynamism and movement, evoking the landscape’s natural rhythms. As birds subtly take flight against radiant skies and tumbling clouds, farm animals graze along rolling paddocks below.

Vader’s visions of thick clouds bursting across heavenly skies read in Broad Horizons as an artist reaching for the sublime, while nodding to the resilience, grit and steely determination required to live and work in the country.

Private previews are currently being conducted at our Sydney Gallery ahead of the exhibition. To make an appointment, or to request a digital preview, please email hughholm@michaelreid.com.au