Wildflowers

Louise Frith returns to Murrurundi later this month with a new series of paintings inspired by her observations of wild and windswept flora in the bushland around Sydney’s North Head.

Commensurate with this coastal setting’s epic scale, Wildflowers represents a shift from the artist’s more intimate still-life paintings to larger-format landscapes while continuing her close study of forms, textures and small delights gleaned from the natural world.

Frith’s new paintings are bathed in sunlight and beautifully capture an interplay of golden Sydney sandstone with untamed profusions of spiky, gnarled, tumbling vegetation. Works from Wildflowers can now be previewed and acquired before the exhibition’s opening.